La Tribu by Francois Barcelo and Cien anos de Soledad by Garcia Marquez: Genesis, Rise, and Fail of Pre-Modern Communities

This paper begins by reflecting on the universalization of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) to stop at the entrance of this novel into the French-speaking cultures. It shows how La Tribu (1981) by Francois Barcelo appropriates the structure that Macondo's fiction presents to propose, from its context, a rewriting of such textual organization. Approaches belonging to French structuralism, to the history of Quebec and to theories concerning historical discourse are used. Texts that address the literary tradition of that Canadian region and works that study the novels involved in this paper arc also utilized.