Los personajes de Modiano, parias y europeos

This article deals with Modiano’s characters, tackling them from the concept of «paria», taken not only as a synonym of jew, but also as a synonym of foreigner, with the aim of, on the one hand, highlighting the relationships between this characters and the European times and spaces recalled in the texts, and, on the other hand, prouving how the latters have an exemplary interest in the sense that they evoque a crucial element of the European identity: the fact that, in the interwar period , it was remade and rebuilt by the internal and permanent migration flows

Espace et langage : La Tour d’amour de Rachilde et la Tour de Babel

In this article I analyze the relationships between space and the main characters in La Tour d’amour, by Rachilde. More specifically I focus on how space has already stunned one of the character’s speech and communicative abilities and it is now in the process of impairing speech in the other. By analyzing the novelist’s use of myths, references to the divinity and, especially, the many instances that offer evidence of widespread corruption in the characters’ language, I show how the lighthouse in which the characters dwell can be interpreted as a decadent Tower of Babel.