مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Reflections Of Conspicuous Consumption In The Novel Named Hunting And Gathering

Abstract :

Human beings in general consume in order to meet their basic physiological needs. However, in these days which are described as the consumption era, individuals try to false pretence so as to gain a better position in the society and to impress others. The concept of conspicuous consumption that is discussed in the work named The Theory Of The Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, is defined as the consumption directed to prove that same individuals belong to the upper-classes, that they live in wealthiness and that they have a precedence within the society they are in.It is possible to find the echoings of the concept of conspicuous consumption in one of today’s French woman writers, Anna Gavalda’s novel called Hunting and Gathering. Gavalda narrates the lives of three youngs and a grandmother who share an apartman in Paris. In this article, the happiness given by the objects that even get ahead to the human life, which the individual purchases only to show his affluence, to earn respect in his social life and the individuals whom these subjects alienated to the society are to be examined in the work that is being talked about.