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Abstract
The present study seeks to give an insight into the image of the Alexandrian
literary space-time in Robert Solé’s trilogy, according to literary research methods
that focus on the space of the city in literary works. In literature, Alexandria occupies
a large place as a melting pot of literary reminiscences.
Between two different literary looks on the city of Alexandria (one is local,
the other is European), we decided to evoke that of Robert Solé who appeared to us
as a compromise between these two worlds apart. This great French writer and
journalist, of Egyptian origin, was born in Cairo in the district of Heliopolis. Cairote
and not Alexandrian but in his writings, we find great nostalgia for this city that he
considered the largest cosmopolitan city at the time he attended the last fires of his
glory.
In order to identify the urban space of the city, we first consulted the space of
the city cited by the narration, while analyzing the position of the narrators in the
text, the spaces of the city cited (real or fictional ) and the sensory memory of the
characters in the city. Then we examined the characters and unwritten laws of the
city, observed by the author. Finally, we analyzed the relationship between the
characters and the city, gathering the spatial figures of the city. And to broaden the
corpus of our thesis and to see the complete image of the city, we resorted to Solé’s
new novel ”Hotel Mahrajane” where he stated that the city evoked in this novel is
Alexandria.
We find in Solé a regret and a desolation for this city which has lost its most
important character that has privileged it. In his trilogy, Solé showed the good face
of this city, in a way that exceeded all the usual lenses. Through the marches and
strolls of his narrators and his characters in the streets and neighborhoods in this city,
Solé has continued in the identity of this city, he was able to analyze the mixed
feelings of his characters towards Alexandria. Finally, we can say that Solé has
created a faithful and imagined portrait of the city at once.