L'intergénéricité dans « L'énigme du retour » de Dany Laferrière
The aim of this master thesis is to show that Dany Laferrière's « L'énigme du retour » (translated into english as « The return ») has the characteristics of several literary genres, mainly travel writing, autobiographical fiction as well as poetry and the combinaison of these forms produces an innovative work, this thesis also postulates that Laferrière's novel, through questions related to exile, return and the origins of literature, maintains an intertextual dialogue with several literary works, particularly, V.S. Naipaul's  « The Enigma of arrival », Aimé Césaire's « Notebook of a Return to the Native Land », and Virgil's « Aeneid ». In addition to the question of returning to the native country, the present study will focus on a few recurring themes in « L'énigme du retour », in particular the narrator's bereavement and the homage paid to two figures who are important to him, that is, his biological father and Aimé Césaire, who is implicitly identified as a « spiritual father ». This analysis will also try to show that « L'énigme du retour » is an attempt at the reworking of conventional forms of literature, reminding us of the « pre-conventional » early seminal texts.
roman francophone contemporain genre énigme contemporary francophone novel haitian literature travel writing autobiographical fiction poetry genre intertextuality