Recit Et Realisme Dans En A7tendant Le Vote Des Betes Sauvagesde Kourouma Et Germinal De Zola

Abstract

The works of Kourouma and Zola have been studied by many scholars, in diverse scholarly works with greater possibility of enriching the areas of study on the works. Thus, the approach to this study, 'Recit et Realisme dans En attendant Ie vote des biUes sauvages de Kourouma et Germinal de Zola'. is but not, from an exclusively narratological perspective. The study examines the manifest links between narrative and the concept of realism that is an aesthetic effort to bridge the gap between fiction (imagination) and reality (truth/fact). Based on a critical examination of textual data collected mainly from Zola's Germinal and Kourouma's En attendant Ie vote des betes sauvages, the study establishes the fact that the two novelists, through a harmonious combination of rhetorical and narratological tools, reproduce historical events without producing history textbooks. The aesthetic artistry of the two novelists is clearly demonstrated in their successful harmonization of narrative fiction and fiction-based historical events in their texts. The study tries not only to unearth but also to elucidate the rhetorical and narratological constructs and their various components that the texts are made of and shed light on the correlation between them as a harmonious textual architecture geared toward realism. In other words, it determines the structure of the works and the stories, thus, capturing the full import of the titles and the relationship between the narrative novelties of Zola and Kourouma. The study affirms the position that realism coexists with fiction in the two texts. It is the aesthetic ingredient that makes the distinction between a narrative text founded on historic events and a history textbook.