RÉFLEXIONS SUR LE (JE)/(TU) DANS “LE ROUGE ET LE NOIR” STENDHAL

Abstract

The study sheds light on studying the speaker's singular pronoun (I) and the second person singular pronoun (you), which are among the most important pronouns used in the world's languages, and the aim of the study is to clarify the importance of these pronouns on the one hand, and knowing the extent of their use in the novel “Red and Black” on the other hand, To be used in a way that draws attention to it. The first-person narration is a form that was invented, especially in the narrative writings related to the autobiography. Therefore, the writer Stendhal was guided by his choice due to the importance and simplicity of it, and the ability to expose the soul from within it through the outside, and perhaps the presence of such a narrative pattern in the novel "The Red and the Black" makes the (I) embodied in the presentation of events and their transmission to the recipient, by virtue of the presence of the narrator as a character In the text. Through the models quoted in the narrative text of the novel, I find in it the pronoun (I) has multiple connotations: it indicates a federal nature between the character of the narrator and the hero, as it is one person. It indicates a premeditated intention, which tells a personal story or related to a specific personal life among the characters of the fictional text or the life of the author himself, and it also indicates the uniqueness of the personality’s thought, as it represents the truth that has consciously understood the concept of issues.

Keywords

Fiction, character, Texts