Search results for "Maupassant"
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Dopodiché
2019
Rileggere – leggere? – oggi il Maupassant di Greimas è un’esperienza straniante: appassiona e turba nello stesso tempo; richiede, più che impegno, caparbietà, desiderio di oltrepassare evidenze e stereotipi, slogan e facilitazioni d’ogni sorta. Per questa ragione, si tratta di un’esperienza fortemente inattuale. In un’epoca qual è la nostra, fatta di quiz e instant book, soluzioni prevedibili per domande banali, le lenti semiotiche di Greimas appaiono tanto appannate quanto necessarie. Meno se ne sente il bisogno, più occorre inforcarle. Chi scrive oggi libri così? Nessuno, certamente: motivo in più per plaudire alla sua ripubblicazione. Colmare la distanza che ci separa da quest’opera, sem…
Ręka, noga, mózg na ścianie, czyli ludzkie szczątki jako kurioza w XIX-wiecznych opowieściach grozy
2016
W XIX stuleciu, „wieku przedmiotów”, kolekcjonowanie ludzkich szczątków, stanowiące przejaw chęci poznania tajemnic człowieka, nic należy do rzadkości. Zakonserwowane w różny sposób fragmenty ludzkiego ciała stanowią również powtarzający się element popularnego nurtu opowieści grozy. W okresie romantyzmu stanowią one jeden z ważnych elementów cudowności, skupiając na sobie narrację i prowokując kolejne niezwykłe wydarzenia (Stopa mumii Theophile’a Gautiera). W ujęciu pozytywistyczno-naturalistycznym wprowadzają element niezwykłości do scjentystyczncgo dyskursu o święcie (Ręka Guy de Maupassanta). Z kolei w tekstach późniejszych, w kontekście okultyzmu i surrealistycznej fantastyki, świadczą…
Ments alterades en el segle XIX: Els relats d'Edgar Allan Poe i Guy de Moupassant
2014
En el present article s’aborda la confl uencia entre l’autor nord-america Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) i l’autor frances Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), que, a pesar d’estar adscrits a tendencies literaries divergents (romanticisme enfront de realisme/naturalisme), van compartir interessos tematics i formals inequivocs en l’ambit del relat. Partint de les primerenques infl uencies de la contistica de Poe sobre l’escriptura de Maupassant, aquest treball se centra en una seleccio dels relats de l’autor frances que el vinculen literariament a Poe (tant en el terreny tematic com en el narratologic), relacionats amb la fascinacio d’ambdos autors per estats mentals atipics i narradors alterats o «a…
L'éveil des sens et la nature complice chez Zola et Maupassant
2020
The paper discusses the problem of the awakening of senses and sensuality, with a visible connivance of nature, in characters of two novels belonging to the Realist/Naturalist movement. In Emile Zola’s The Sin of Father Mouret (1875), a fanatic priest having forgotten his clerical condition falls in love with a virgin girl who grew up in a savage garden. They are both involved in an erotic game set up by plants and animals living in the garden that want them to know the carnal aspect of love and push them to a physical close-up. In this way, the garden, named the Paradou, becomes both a kind of new Eden and an inferno of lust. In Guy de Maupassant’s Mont-Oriol (1887), a young and naïve aris…
Le silence des fous chez Zola et Maupassant
2017
Itis difficult to define all the meanings and connotations of silence depicted in literary works. In the 19th century, where the Realism and the Naturalism paid much attention to the study of both physical and mental illnesses, silence was considered as one of the distinctive signs of madness. The paper analyzes four examples of this phenomenon in selected Zola s and Maupassant s texts (novels and short stories) whose characters, all mad or maniac, embody various aspects of the silence regarded as a pathological condition of a human being.
Paysages de la solitude féminine : Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant
2019
The paper analyses three cases of feminine solitude as depicted in three novels belonging to the Realist and Naturalist movement. Flaubert’s Emma Bovary considers herself superior to the others who neither understand her nor see who she really is, and thus suffers during all her life and finally commits suicide. Zola’s Hélène Grandjean (One Page of Love) is not aware of the falseness of her life mode of an honest widow incapable of having a passionate love affair, and this unawareness costs her the life of her child. Maupassant’s Christiane Andermatt (Mont-Oriol), an aristocrat married to a Jewish banker in order to repair the family’s fortune, has an affair with a lady-killer who abandons …
Le traumatisme de l'initiation sexuelle fèminine au XIXe siècle à l'exemple d'Une Vie de Guy de Maupassant
2018
Une Vie (One Life, 1883,) is the first novel by Guy de Maupassant, known as the author of newspaper chronicles and short stories. It tells the story of the banal life of an aristocratic girl who marries the first man met after leaving the convent and approved by her parents. Having been raised in a particular milieu that rejects any idea of female sexuality, she is marked forever by the trauma of her sexual initiation which makes her hate the camal relations. She stands them, however, due to her passive and obedient character. Therefore, she lives a monotone, meaningless life, despised by her family and going from one defeat to another. The novel might be read as a critiąue of arranged marr…