Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre

A novelistic appropriation of a trial records? Variations on Nodier’s Bibliomaniac? A Hoffmann tale with a Dantesque hero? A physiology of the bibliophile? A clinical study of the bibliomaniac? Bibliomania, written by Flaubert when he was fifteen, is a literary curiosity with an open generic identit...

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Main Author: Magali Soulatges
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Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2023-11-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2760
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description A novelistic appropriation of a trial records? Variations on Nodier’s Bibliomaniac? A Hoffmann tale with a Dantesque hero? A physiology of the bibliophile? A clinical study of the bibliomaniac? Bibliomania, written by Flaubert when he was fifteen, is a literary curiosity with an open generic identity. The question of the esthetic status of this early story (that may be too hastily classified in the sole fantastic tale category) seems to be crystallized in a naïve image, endlessly contemplated by the tale’s hero: the one, around the word “Finis”, that forms the colophon of an ancient manuscript. On the grounds of the bibliomaniac Giacomo’s boundless worship of this image, and considering the possible double interpretation of the word “Finis” in bibliological and philosophical registers, might we not recognize in Bibliomanie the form of a Vanity?
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Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
literary genre
fantastic tale
physiology
madness
bibliophilia
bibliomania
title Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
title_full Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
title_fullStr Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
title_full_unstemmed Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
title_short Et hic est finis : Bibliomanie, ou le livre-arbitre
title_sort et hic est finis bibliomanie ou le livre arbitre
topic literary genre
fantastic tale
physiology
madness
bibliophilia
bibliomania
url https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2760
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