Dandysme, crise du modèle épique et crise sacrificielle : Psycho(patho)logie du héros fin-de-siècle dans sa volonté d'être unique
In Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, René Girard draws a line between the novels that reveal the delusion of self-made desires and the ones that nurter this romantic lie. After the defeat of Sedan, Joris-Karl Huysmans in À rebours (1884) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901) combine...
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| description | In Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, René Girard draws a line between the novels that reveal the delusion of self-made desires and the ones that nurter this romantic lie. After the defeat of Sedan, Joris-Karl Huysmans in À rebours (1884) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901) combine the medical aspects of naturalism with the symbolism foreshadowed by Baudelaire. The main characters of these novels, Jean des Esseintes and Jean de Fréneuse, cultivate a taste for beauty, rareness and oddity which gives away their romantic desire of being unique. These self-isolated and willingly lonely characters underline the impossibility of conceiving onsefelf as a desiring individual. As he discovers the emptiness of his desire, the character fails at becoming a hero, and yet brings to light the vanity of desire. As he steps aside from the romantic lie, he opens a path out of the crisis of the epic.31 janvier 2018 |
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb06e7409ce54ab9bd5bcabc3951148a2025-08-20T02:21:53ZengAssociation Portugaise d'Etudes FrançaisesCarnets1646-76982018-01-011210.4000/carnets.2499Dandysme, crise du modèle épique et crise sacrificielle : Psycho(patho)logie du héros fin-de-siècle dans sa volonté d'être uniqueMarie Kawthar DaoudaIn Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque, René Girard draws a line between the novels that reveal the delusion of self-made desires and the ones that nurter this romantic lie. After the defeat of Sedan, Joris-Karl Huysmans in À rebours (1884) and Jean Lorrain in Monsieur de Phocas (1901) combine the medical aspects of naturalism with the symbolism foreshadowed by Baudelaire. The main characters of these novels, Jean des Esseintes and Jean de Fréneuse, cultivate a taste for beauty, rareness and oddity which gives away their romantic desire of being unique. These self-isolated and willingly lonely characters underline the impossibility of conceiving onsefelf as a desiring individual. As he discovers the emptiness of his desire, the character fails at becoming a hero, and yet brings to light the vanity of desire. As he steps aside from the romantic lie, he opens a path out of the crisis of the epic.31 janvier 2018https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/2499fin-de-siècledandysmcrisis of the epicLorrain (Jean)Huysmans (Joris-Karl) |
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| title | Dandysme, crise du modèle épique et crise sacrificielle : Psycho(patho)logie du héros fin-de-siècle dans sa volonté d'être unique |
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