@article {Gallagher:2018:1649-1335:143,
title = "Poetic (Re)Turn in Dany Laferri{\‘e}re's L'{\’E}nigme du retour",
journal = "Irish Journal of French Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://irjofs/ijfs",
publishercode ="irjofs",
year = "2018",
volume = "18",
number = "1",
publication date ="2018-12-13T00:00:00",
pages = "143-162",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1649-1335",
eissn = "2009-941X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/irjofs/ijfs/2018/00000018/00000001/art00011",
doi = "doi:10.7173/164913318825258482",
keyword = "NARRATIVE FORM, POETIC TRADITION, DANY LAFERRIÈRE, POETRY, L'ÉNIGME DU RETOUR, RHYTHM, DEATH",
author = "Gallagher, Mary",
abstract = "Dany Laferri{\‘e}re's 2009 novel, L'{\’E}nigme du retour, enacts a poetic turn that is also, however, a return (both to the genre of poetry and to a 'temps perdu', which is superimposed on the emigrant writer's 'pays perdu'). As such, this work inflects a personal
narrative with collective, political resonance and with added literary and aesthetic value. Formally, structurally and discursively, it mediates a historically resonant, proto-bardic ethos, connecting across time with a universal tradition of poetically addressing politically and culturally
significant questions, including those related to human engagement with place and displacement. ",
}