Mal du siècle et mal du lieu : bovarysme et romantisme mêlés dans les deux grands romans modernes de Flaubert
With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/913 |
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| Summary: | With a global comparison between Flaubert’s two chief modern novels, Madame Bovary and L’Éducation sentimentale, and a superposition of suggestive examples taken from both of them, this article intends to prove that the sequence of contrasts that firstly appear must not conceal the subtle variations on the same narrative patterns and the same psychological climates. We can notice this phenomena as well as for the negative poles of ridiculous features (Frederic’s impenitent “bovarysme”) and misfortunes (analogies between the trials that have to be faced by the heroes — especially those of the “sentimental journey”), as for the positive pole — more implicit in Flaubert’s prose — that implies a kind of partial rehabilitation principle of the main characters, and the persistence of romanticism, a whole romanticism with singularity, revolt, election through unhappiness, passion and desire. |
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| ISSN: | 1969-6191 |