This paper analyses Gaël Faye's novel, Petit Pays. The focus is on evil in the novel. The research question is how the author denounces the civil war in Rwanda. To do this, the narrative device of focalisation and Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil is used. Focalisation is the point of view adopted by the author in his narrative to avoid any confusion between the narrative mode (who sees?) and the narrative voice (who speaks?). The banality of evil is a philosophical concept of unprecedented importance because it raises the possibility of the inhuman in all of us. The novel is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Rwanda and told by the narrator, Gabriel, the protagonist a ten-year-old child. The analysis shows that the author denounces Rwanda's civil war by using the focalization, point of view, and sensibility of an innocent boy. Moreover, the concept of the banality of evil helps to understand the crimes committed during the war, that we have studied in several passages of the novel. The result points out that the author shows the atrocity of war in order to denounce it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-122634 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Inamako, Moshak |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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