Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé

Iconic hero of the famous decadent Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novel, A Rebours, Des Esseintes collects in his library a precious collection of ancient and contemporary works, made up of his favorite readings including the works of Flaubert and Mallarmé.In this study, we continue to walk in the footsteps...

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Main Author: Judit Maár
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Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2024-06-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/5617
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description Iconic hero of the famous decadent Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novel, A Rebours, Des Esseintes collects in his library a precious collection of ancient and contemporary works, made up of his favorite readings including the works of Flaubert and Mallarmé.In this study, we continue to walk in the footsteps of A Rebours’s protagonist to offer a comparative reading of the texts of its two revered authors. For Flaubert, our main corpus will be Madame Bovary, for Mallarmé, it will be the poem published in gratitude to Huysmans, Prose pour Des Esseintes. This choice may be surprising: why compare the novel traditionally – and possibly mistakenly – considered to be a first masterpiece of realism, and the poem taken for one of the most enigmatic texts of symbolism? It seems to us, and we will try to demonstrate it here, that Flaubert's novel proposes possible interpretations which justify the connection with the mysterious Mallarmé’s poem. After a brief introduction devoted to the relationships between Huysmans, Flaubert and Mallarmé, as well as the evocation of their works in A Rebours, we will develop the triple theme of the absence, the unreal and the silence, as it presents itself in Flaubert's novel and in Mallarmé's poem. The conclusion will allow us to reinscribe A Rebours in this same theme.
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spelling doaj-art-ef1da2f019f642bea753d35b5b113e862025-02-05T16:29:14ZfraInstitut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique1969-61912024-06-013110.4000/12fd7Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et MallarméJudit MaárIconic hero of the famous decadent Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novel, A Rebours, Des Esseintes collects in his library a precious collection of ancient and contemporary works, made up of his favorite readings including the works of Flaubert and Mallarmé.In this study, we continue to walk in the footsteps of A Rebours’s protagonist to offer a comparative reading of the texts of its two revered authors. For Flaubert, our main corpus will be Madame Bovary, for Mallarmé, it will be the poem published in gratitude to Huysmans, Prose pour Des Esseintes. This choice may be surprising: why compare the novel traditionally – and possibly mistakenly – considered to be a first masterpiece of realism, and the poem taken for one of the most enigmatic texts of symbolism? It seems to us, and we will try to demonstrate it here, that Flaubert's novel proposes possible interpretations which justify the connection with the mysterious Mallarmé’s poem. After a brief introduction devoted to the relationships between Huysmans, Flaubert and Mallarmé, as well as the evocation of their works in A Rebours, we will develop the triple theme of the absence, the unreal and the silence, as it presents itself in Flaubert's novel and in Mallarmé's poem. The conclusion will allow us to reinscribe A Rebours in this same theme.https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/5617Absenceunrealinterpretationtranspositionsilence
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Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Absence
unreal
interpretation
transposition
silence
title Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
title_full Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
title_fullStr Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
title_full_unstemmed Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
title_short Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé
title_sort dans la bibliotheque de des esseintes flaubert et mallarme
topic Absence
unreal
interpretation
transposition
silence
url https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/5617
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