The philosophical and allegorical prose in the works of A. de Saint-Exupery: specific features

Authors

  • Olga F. Jilevich Polessky State University, 23 Dniaproŭskaj flatylii Street, Pinsk 225710, Brest region, Belarus; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

French literature, philosophical and allegorical novel, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, allegory, philosophical system, worldview

Abstract

The article is devoted to the identification of specific features of the philosophical and allegorical prose, as one of the most relevant phenomenon in French literature of the XX century. The article reveals the peculiarities of the functioning of the allegory in the narrative of A. de Saint-Exupery’s philosophical and allegorical prose as an artistic-aesthetic means of the text and a constructive factor in the organization of the prose. Author's strategies are presented in the disclosure of the artistic concept of the world and man, in solving moral and ethical, philosophical and ontological problems.

Author Biography

  • Olga F. Jilevich, Polessky State University, 23 Dniaproŭskaj flatylii Street, Pinsk 225710, Brest region, Belarus; Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology), docent; associate professor at the deartment of linguistics and business communications, Polessky State University; doctoral student at the department of foreign literature, faculty of philology, Belarusian State University 

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2019-02-27

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No. 1 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology

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Literary Research

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Jilevich, O.F. 2019. The philosophical and allegorical prose in the works of A. de Saint-Exupery: specific features. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philology. 1 (Feb. 2019), 65–71.