SUR LES MÉTAPHORES DU MAL DANS LE GLAS DU MAL DE NAJIB REDOUANE

As a trope used mainly in poetry, metaphor is the resource for creating powerful, suggestive images. It appears in the text under various patterns: it may be in praesentia or in absentia of the terms compared, lexicalized, creative, conceptual or obtained via transfer of meaning, via adding or eliminating semantic features, it can be nominal or verbal, simple or extended. The aim is to identify how the metaphor of evil is rendered by Najib Redouane, a Canadian American writer of Moroccan origin, in his collection of sonnets Le glas du mal. He presents a radiography of evil (of wrong and harm) and its moral consequences on the human being, his own personal story mingling with that of the Arab people who rose against oppression and dictatorship. Our article is structured in three parts: the first part contains an outline of the forms of evil, the second is focused on some of the theories of metaphor and the third part is an analysis of the most frequent types of metaphor encountered in this book.