CORPS VU, CORPS SENTI DANS LA SYMPHONIE PASTORALE D’ANDRÉ GIDE. DE QUELQUES FORMES DE L’ÉROTISME
SEEN BODY, FELT BODY IN LA SYMPHONIE PASTORALE BY ANDRÉ GIDE. ABOUT SOME FORMS OF EROTICISM

Summary/Abstract: The aim of our paper is to find, classify and analyse the forms and manifestations of eroticism in a short novel by André Gide, La Symphonie pastorale. Our approach considers the two parts implyed, namely the masculine and the feminine ; in other words, we study the Pastor’s erotism manifested towards Gertrude and the erotical desire that feels Gertrude for the Pastor and for Jacques. We are very far, in our analyse, from some previous researches which consider this story a litterary tranposition of the homosexual desire of André Gide for Marc Allégret (imbodied by Gertude), because we simply view in this novel an erotical one, the novel of a heterosexual desire, as presented by the story. It is, in our perception, the story of a long erotical waiting, doubled by an increasing tension, where the desire for the imagined body does not encounter the desire for the seen one.

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