Claude Crébillon, chroniqueur du libertinage chez la bonne compagnie
In this essay I would like to read the works written by the French novelist Claude Crébillon (1707-1777) as a series of worldly libertinage chronicles from the period of Phillipe d’Orléans’ regency and the reign of Louis XV. Unjustly called licentious, frivolous and even libertine, “Girgiro, l’entor...
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| description | In this essay I would like to read the works written by the French novelist Claude Crébillon (1707-1777) as a series of worldly libertinage chronicles from the period of Phillipe d’Orléans’ regency and the reign of Louis XV. Unjustly called licentious, frivolous and even libertine, “Girgiro, l’entortillé”, epithet due to the tortuosity of the author’s style, undertakes in all of his novels, from a sharp and ironic point of view, a kind of a philosophical journey through the different power and seduction games, presenting to his reader a worldly libertinage chronicle of his time disclosing all kind of its deceitfulness. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a36527ce7704979bd7632cc31c04f342024-12-09T13:43:30ZengAssociation Portugaise d'Etudes FrançaisesCarnets1646-76982014-11-01210.4000/carnets.1287Claude Crébillon, chroniqueur du libertinage chez la bonne compagnieAna Alexandra Seabra de CarvalhoIn this essay I would like to read the works written by the French novelist Claude Crébillon (1707-1777) as a series of worldly libertinage chronicles from the period of Phillipe d’Orléans’ regency and the reign of Louis XV. Unjustly called licentious, frivolous and even libertine, “Girgiro, l’entortillé”, epithet due to the tortuosity of the author’s style, undertakes in all of his novels, from a sharp and ironic point of view, a kind of a philosophical journey through the different power and seduction games, presenting to his reader a worldly libertinage chronicle of his time disclosing all kind of its deceitfulness.https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1287chronicle novelCrébillon (Claude)18th Century worldly libertinage |
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