Literature is an expression of the world in which the writer lives and becomes an eternal renewal. Indeed, fiction and reality are currently being mixed up once again around the global pandemic we are going through. Today's world is experiencing upheavals in daily life due to the COVID 19 virus and even the health crisis since January 2020. This disease has sown disorder within societies and has even fostered prejudices and stereotypes. Such is the case in “The Year of the Lion” by its South African author Deon Meyer. In this communication, we will try to see, on the one hand, how this postapocalyptic and premonitory novel written since 2016, reveals itself to be a place of value judgments and gives rise to preconceived ideas against the characters having to manage extreme situations and make difficult decisions, and on the other hand, to see how the author works to deconstruct these stereotypes by putting the action exclusively in Africa.

Keywords:

COVID 19, fiction, reality, imagination, representation, stereotype, Africa

Pages:

35-44

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Research Paper

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Literary Science

Topic:

(Literary) Language and Social Conditioning

UDC:

821.133.1-3(6)

DOIs:

https://doi.org/10.20235/lc.2023(1)3, 
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10424492

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