Gabo and Mimouni: Chronicle of a foretold literary complicity

"Gabo and Mimouni: Chronicle of a literary complicity foretold" aims to demonstrate the existence of an intertextuality, a literary complicity between the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Rachid Mimouni. Through this comparative study, we want to analyze the concepts of honor and religion that appear in the novels: Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabo, and L'honneur de la tribe by Mimouni. A complicity that is strongly present in the two chosen works, starting with their titles. Moving on to the religious incipits with which the two novels begin. To the character of the imam and the bishop as two men of religion, to Saltimbanque and Bayardo San Juan as two foreigners. As well as Zitouna, 'Macondo del Maghreb' and the anonymous people of the Caribbean, without forgetting the cowardice of the villagers in the two novels, a cowardice that cost the death of Slimane El Mabrouk in L'honneur de la tribu, and Santiago Nasar in Crónica de una muerte anunciada.

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PhD. Stipendiatin im Rahmen des nationalen Sonderprogramms PNE. Aufgabe: Universität von La Rioja. Dozent für Spanisch an der Universität von Alger 2.Dozentin am Institut für intensiven Fremdsprachenunterricht an der Universität Algier 2, von 2013 bis 2017.

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"Gabo and Mimouni: Chronicle of a literary complicity foretold" aims to demonstrate the existence of an intertextuality, a literary complicity between the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Rachid Mimouni. Through this comparative study, we want to analyze the concepts of honor and religion that appear in the novels: Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabo, and L'honneur de la tribe by Mimouni. A complicity that is strongly present in the two chosen works, starting with their titles. Moving on to the religious incipits with which the two novels begin. To the character of the imam and the bishop as two men of religion, to Saltimbanque and Bayardo San Juan as two foreigners. As well as Zitouna, 'Macondo del Maghreb' and the anonymous people of the Caribbean, without forgetting the cowardice of the villagers in the two novels, a cowardice that cost the death of Slimane El Mabrouk in L'honneur de la tribu, and Santiago Nasar in Crónica de una muerte anunciada.