On the representation and exaltation of humanist values in Man’s Fate, The Last of the just,The Other, and The Multiple Child

Abstract

André Malraux, Andrée Chédid and André Schwarz-Bart embody a generation of migrant writers who have turned their geographical and cultural displacement into a creative resource in the service of a renewed humanism. Their works bear witness to the fact that migration, far from being
merely an ordeal of uprooting, can become the breeding ground for a broader vision of a nationalityworld. This contribution shows that these authors advocate fundamental humanist values such as
solidarity, tolerance, human dignity and peace. They illustrate how migration, while a quest for
identity and often exile, also becomes a source of reflection on the universality of human values.