Réversibilité du mépris dans Bouvard et Pécuchet ou comment « saper les bases » de la société
While it may appear to be a possible response to the vanity and stupidity denounced by the writer in his Correspondence, contempt is a reversible feeling. An examination of several episodes in Bouvard et Pécuchet shows that it is part of a particularly devious “return to sender” mechanism. The impos...
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| Language: | fra |
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Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/4870 |
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| Summary: | While it may appear to be a possible response to the vanity and stupidity denounced by the writer in his Correspondence, contempt is a reversible feeling. An examination of several episodes in Bouvard et Pécuchet shows that it is part of a particularly devious “return to sender” mechanism. The impossibility of stabilising the points of view expressed in this way leads us to observe an “equality of everything” that is a joyfully denigrating impersonality. |
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| ISSN: | 1969-6191 |