%0 Journal Article
%T La   conversion   au fran ais de Fran ois Cheng et Hector Bianciotti
%A Adeline Li¨¦bert
%J Intercambio
%D 2011
%I Universidade do Porto
%X Fran ois Cheng and Hector Bianciotti, two writers   from elsewhere   have   converted   to French to write their work, with all that this word also presupposes in terms of forsaking but also confidence about the correctness of the chosen path. Both have lived their admission to the French Academy as a post facto legitimization of their career, which began in the extreme South for Bianciotti, and the Far East in the case of Cheng. For these two authors, the love of the French language and its   genius   is not synonymous with an enslavement which forgets its roots, but openness to the mystery of language, which they make more tangible to us.
%K language
%K uprooting
%K disquiet
%K French
%U http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/10355.pdf