Lieux communs et représentations littéraires des exilés

Abstract

If historical criticism has already thoroughly studied all the modalities of exile in Greek antiquity, we do not always think of looking at the representations of exile and exiled people in archaic and classical literature as a whole, that is to say, also taking into account the contribution of poets, tragic and comic authors, contemporaries of a period rich in exiles of all kinds. Yet it is here that, for the first time, the commonplaces attributed to the exiles are put in place. So I propose to make a detour through literature and take these political refugees for what they are too: literary characters that can be grouped into three categories. The best known and the most common is that of the exile overwhelmed by fate, the second could be called the category of the pugnacious and reckless exile, the last, finally, that of the exile thinker.

Keywords

• exile
• representations
• persecution
• war
• voluntary exile