A stylistic study of the discourse of rejection and violence in the novel The Brutal Wedding by Yann Queffélec

Abstract

Abstract The novel The Brutal Wedding is a literary work by the French writer Yann Queffélec. It was published in 1985, and won the Goncourt Prize in the same year. This study adopts The analysis and identification of the rhetorical styles that characterized the writer's own style. Thus, by analyzing the language used in the above-stated novel, including vocabulary, syntactic structures, and rhetorical styles, the current study focuses on the topics of rejection and violence. This study arrives at the conclusion that the author's narrative style in terms of the careful selection of lexical words, semantic aspects, and the multiple connotations that addressed the problems of rejection, violence, and the constant suffering of his heroes, were able to a large extent to enrich his work, and hence, creating a profound psychological impact on the reader.