Document Type : Original Article
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PhD Candidate, Department of French language, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Associate Professor, Department of French language, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of French language, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Martin Heidegger is one of the philosophers who has played a key role in the emergence of important philosophical currents. He believed that the right way to think is to discover the horizon of the fundamental question of existence, which means "the existence" of a being. To interpret it, one must question the existence of Dasein (man). From his point of view, “Dasein” is the only being who is aware of death, and this awareness, by finding meaning in life, becomes a force to break with the everyday and the absurd. Using textual-descriptive analysis, this study tried to examine some unpublished and internal aspects of the fictional characters of the works of Jean Echenoz through the ontological theories of Heidegger and to reflect the characteristics of Dasein in Echenoz’s novels. Furthermore, it examined the role of confusion, wandering and its effect on human identity, in line with philosophical concepts formed beyond the writings of this author. The study concluded that by receiving this knowledge of “being and existence”, this Dasein (human or Echenozian personality), if his way of being in the world is considered, in the position of a being among all beings, is not limited to time and space. This Dasien may never be perfect but his existence is the path he travels and this is how the loneliness, the wandering, the fear, the fall of the Echenoz’s characters all contribute to a greater grip of consciousness, recognition, and self-awareness.
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