Destruksie in die romans van Etienne Leroux met besondere verwysing na 'Onse Hymie' : 'n literêre ondersoek
Abstract
The novels of Etienne Leroux are to a large
extent esoteric and one can find a key to
penetrate to the secret in an aspect which
often occurs in the novel viz. destruction.
The attentive reader will note that the
novelistic characters often become untidy and
rundown, that they are injured and that they
die. In the same way the space of the novel is
subject to destruction. The space is ravaged
by floods, by fire or by earthquakes.
Ultimately the most basic building block of
the novel, the word, is also subjected to an
onslaught and decay in various ways.
In this dissertation a brief overview is first
provided of all the novels of Leroux, but
emphasis was directed at the most recent
novels of Leroux, and then in particular Onse
Hymie.
There are also other aspects which indicate
decay. In this dissertation attention was also
directed at the other aspects embodying decay
and disintegration. A study was made of the
aspect of time in the novels. The burlesque
and the satirical are means of destruction and
were also studied. In the last instance the
literary genre, tragicomedy, was also
investigated with a view to destruction.
Were the novels of Leroux , however, to remain
rooted in destruction, then they would only be
embodying the contemporary spirit of an empty
commercialized civilization. In his novels,
however, there is also, in contradistinction to
destruction, an opposite pole of
reconstruction and revival, and therefore the
novels rise above the contemporary spirit of
materialism and a life of instant values. In
the novels a vision of eternity is detected
which offers hope for the reader.
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