Imaginaire et formes de la quête dans Le Chercheur d'or de J.M.G Le Clézio

Abstract

Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio, one of the Masters of the French literature, with writing in 1985 the gold digger, novel in which it pays homage to its origins Mauritians as with her large father left to research a legendary treasure that it never did not find. The search is a functional concept in the accounts, it is either connect, or subjacent. Narrative semiotics discursive is proposed is developed by Algirdas, Julien, Greimas, seems to offer resolutely scientific means to highlight it like releasing the direction of an account on the basis of the surface level c' be-with-to even say the text and arriving to him at the major level (set of themes). Alexis, main character of this novel, left to the search a legendary treasure which would have allowed him recovered its lost Eden: the house of its childhood, the field of the din, its garden,….of this lost Eden it will have only the memory, the uncle who repurchased all the grounds will bait himself to erase the traces of a family heureuse. le course of Alexis will be marked out losses and failures: loss of the people initiating it with the existence, the death of his/her parents, loss of its beautiful years in a chimerical search only the love of Ouma, enabled him to triumph against the time which passes and the destruction over the man. It will finally find happiness without the love and the contemplation of nature. The search of Alexis is not vain, it enabled him to join again with what was essential for him: his report/ratio with nature, the elements, the beauty and innocence.