Récurrence et récursivité dans le roman L’Empire des anges de Bernard Werber

Abstract

The reccurence and recursivity in the novel L’Empire des anges as the means of creation of poly-isotopic coherent discourse are manifested at intra- and intertextual levels revealing the author’s creative faculties and idiostylistic peculiarities. The intratextual reccurence is actualized in the form of stylistic figures and intratextemes with the aim to emphatically mark one referent, the gradation of the intensity of emotions or to avoid the reintroduction of the identical intratexteme intra- and / or interphrasally. The recursive organization of the novel is realized intra- and intertextually by way of symbols, of the model « book in the book », of (self- )recursif protagonists. Some objects and characters are reccurent-recursif which testifies to the intertwining and the interpenetration of two phenomena of iteration in the same literary work.