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    Sylvain Trudel et le réenchantement du monde
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2013) Thomas, Jean-Pierre
    Since the middle of the 1980s, French Canadian novelist Sylvain Trudel has constantly put his characters in contentious situations from which they try to escape by way of creating alternative worlds at the same time real and fantastical. This device takes the characters away from their trite everyday life and into a symbolic and mystical universe. The synthème seems to be fit into that symbolic frame. Through the child’s point of view – which seems then to become some sort of secret language – each object belonging to the realm of the profane becomes tinted with a sacred meaning. Synthème and symbol would then be considered as vehicles for the sacred, that which shows through Sylvain Trudel’s novels.