« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes »
In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. In Salammbô, Flaubert re-writes the story of salvation. In...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/1227 |
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| Summary: | In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. In Salammbô, Flaubert re-writes the story of salvation. In Salammbô’s name, Flaubert construes the origin of a figure which is actually linked to Christian Rome as the ancient story of Carthage. In Hérodias, Flaubert takes up the triumph of the Orient as proclaimed by Renan and feared by the Catholic Church. This danger is realized in the figure of Hérodias and averted by the decapitation of John the Baptist. In its perverted relationship to the historical texts of reference, Hérodias unmasks the claim to supremacy of the rising clerical model of power, while the translatio of the Roman Empire gets radicalized in the figure of Aulus. Aulus can be read performatively as beginning and foundation of the French story of salvation as a Roman story of perversion. |
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| ISSN: | 1969-6191 |