Mani, le prophète voyageur dans Des jardins de lumière d’Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf’s work is a call to travel because the quest of the self is wandering. The Maaloufian protagonists move, meditate and reflect on themselves, on the other, and on the elsewhere to bring out what they have in common but also what makes them different. His work is also an incentive to reco...

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Main Author: Souaad Masmoudi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université du Sud Toulon-Var 2020-06-01
Series:Babel : Littératures Plurielles
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/babel/10241
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title Mani, le prophète voyageur dans Des jardins de lumière d’Amin Maalouf
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series Babel : Littératures Plurielles
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publishDate 2020-06-01
description Amin Maalouf’s work is a call to travel because the quest of the self is wandering. The Maaloufian protagonists move, meditate and reflect on themselves, on the other, and on the elsewhere to bring out what they have in common but also what makes them different. His work is also an incentive to reconsider the dichotomies life / death, love / hate, tolerance / fanaticism etc… The journey in this context is not a simple displacement, but also a journey towards the other who ends up looking back. Through The Gardens of Light (1991), the romanticized biography of Maalouf, we will follow the journey of Mani, the traveling prophet who lived in the third century, who traveled and experienced life, who experienced separation, deprivation and persecution, and who ended up being sentenced to death because of his beliefs.
topic Mani
religion
travel
light
humanism
tolerance
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