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Abstract
The aim of the present study is as follows: The first part consists of a study of Kattan's transcontinental trilogy, highlighting its leitmotifs, narrative style, and especially the socio-historical conditions it reflects, with Adieu, Babylone (1975) receiving particular attention.I will then study one of Kattan's latest novels Le gardien de mon frère (2003), followed by two collections of short stories, an earlier one, La Reprise (1985), then a recent title, Je regarde les femmes (2005), none of which have been translated to date.Having done so, this article will move on to tie the themes of exile and expatriation as reflected in Naïm Kattan's fiction, notably in the trilogy, to the writer's own professed views pertaining to the passage of his multiple being across various nations. RésuméLes objectifs de la présente étude sont les suivants : La première partie consiste en une étude de la trilogie transcontinentale de Kattan, mettant en exergue ses leitmotivs, son style narratif et surtout les conditions socio-historiques qu'elle reflète, avec une attention particulière pour Adieu, Babylone (1975).J'étudierai ensuite l'un des derniers romans de Kattan, Le gardien de mon frère (2003), suivi de deux recueils de nouvelles, l'un plus ancien, La reprise (1985), et l'autre plus récent, Je regarde les femmes (2005), dont aucun n'a été traduit à ce jour.Ceci fait, cet article s'attachera à relier les thèmes de l'exil et de l'expatriation tels qu'ils se reflètent dans la fiction de Naïm Kattan, notamment dans la trilogie, aux opinions professées par l'écrivain lui-même quant au passage de son être multiple à travers diverses nations. Kattan and his OeuvreNaïm Kattan (1928-2021) grew up in Baghdad, where he was born to a middleclass Jewish household.In 1947, he went to Paris on a scholarship to study literature, and a few years later, in 1954, he moved to Canada.There, he became active in publishing and editing, founding the first Montreal Jewish newsletter in French, and contributing literary criticism in such newspapers as La Quinzaine Littéraire, Critique, and especially the daily Le Devoir (beginning in 1962). 1 He held a key position in the Canada Council for twenty-four years (1967-1991), promoting the development of Canadian literature and being dubbed "la fée des bourses à Ottawa (the grant fairy of Ottawa)." 2 In the thirty-six preceding his death, Kattan produced a total of thirty-four novels, essays (reflective rather than formal), and collections of short stories, a vast body of work for which he was awarded the Prix Athanase David (2004), considered one of the highest honors of the prestigious Prix du Quebec series.Kattan was the first Arabic Canadian writer to receive an honour previously granted
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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