La littérature comme lutte à mort des consciences

The article distinguishes the aims of realism in Madame Bovary and L’Ėducation sentimentale from that in Balzac and Stendhal. Through Flaubert’s early works it examines the creation of an esthetics that, after the author’s ‘death to the world’, strives to target and destroy contemporary society and...

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Main Author: Pierre Bergounioux
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2017-12-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2811
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Summary:The article distinguishes the aims of realism in Madame Bovary and L’Ėducation sentimentale from that in Balzac and Stendhal. Through Flaubert’s early works it examines the creation of an esthetics that, after the author’s ‘death to the world’, strives to target and destroy contemporary society and the reader. He thereby explores the awareness of literature’s new power.
ISSN:1969-6191