D’Amaurote à Dumocala : variations sur les rois en utopie
From Amaurote to Dumocala: variations on kings in utopias
Author(s): François RossetSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Diplomatic history, History of ideas, Modern Age, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: Utopia; king; Poland; François Rabelais; Sylvain Maréchal; Stanislas Leszczyński
Summary/Abstract: After recalling the figure of Pantagruel, a grandson of the king of Utopia and king of the Dipsodes - which makes it possible to evoke some of the properties of utopia, and in particular that which consists of searching within utopia itself for filial links it maintains with previous texts - the discussion is narrowed down to the figure of the king in the tradition of utopia, with Sylvain Maréchal's Last Judgement of Kings serving as an example. Next, attention is directed more specifically to the figure of the king of Poland, a figure particularly suited to stimulate the political imagination of Europeans in the 18th century, and then to the person of Stanislas Leszczyński - the only sovereign to have written a utopia. He is the author of the short novel Entretien d’un Européan avec un insulaire du Royaume de Dumocala, which is both faithful to the narrative model it helps to perpetuate and devoid of any revolutionary intentions.
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 9-22
- Page Count: 14
- Language: French