Négy francia árnyékpár
Four French Couples of Shadows

Summary/Abstract: For this comparative essay, the author has chosen to explore the topic of shadow in French literature, in works ranging from the Romantic period to the surrealists. Among the methods employed in these concise parallel readings, some of the most attractive are myth criticism, imagology and intertextual reading, which are used along the more traditional techniques of historical and philological interpretation, hermeneutics and stylistic analysis. The analysed literary texts serve as illustrations for the many permutations this popular trope from Chamisso’s prose narrative about Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow, to Jacques Prévert’s pessimistic love poem, Les ombres.

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