La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade
These two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However, the function of music in these books is utter...
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| description | These two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However, the function of music in these books is utterly negative : it is of foreign origin — this reflects some Anglo-saxon xenophobic prejudices ; Svengali is an East European Jew in Trilby and Falkner Meade makes southern Italy instrumental in his plot — which certainly accounts for its being evil. In the two books, the protagonists are possessed and enslaved by music which, like a vampire, exhausts them and drains them empty, dissolves their identity and robs them of their willpower. The diabolic possession at work is also, more or less explicitly, of an erotic nature — in both cases, a male character holds a victim in bondage through music — but the inevitable outcome is death. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f6825849cc384c479a1c3b9548a68a3f2025-08-20T04:02:09ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492004-04-015910.4000/147tgLa musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner MeadeFrançoise Dupeyron-LafayThese two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However, the function of music in these books is utterly negative : it is of foreign origin — this reflects some Anglo-saxon xenophobic prejudices ; Svengali is an East European Jew in Trilby and Falkner Meade makes southern Italy instrumental in his plot — which certainly accounts for its being evil. In the two books, the protagonists are possessed and enslaved by music which, like a vampire, exhausts them and drains them empty, dissolves their identity and robs them of their willpower. The diabolic possession at work is also, more or less explicitly, of an erotic nature — in both cases, a male character holds a victim in bondage through music — but the inevitable outcome is death.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/16451 |
| spellingShingle | Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| title | La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade |
| title_full | La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade |
| title_fullStr | La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade |
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| title_short | La musique et le mal : possession diabolique dans Trilby (1894) de George du Maurier et The Lost Stradivarius (1895) de John Falkner Meade |
| title_sort | la musique et le mal possession diabolique dans trilby 1894 de george du maurier et the lost stradivarius 1895 de john falkner meade |
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