L’hypotypose dans Candide (Voltaire) : description-tableau ou description de tableau ?
Hypotyposis in Candide (Voltaire): Table-Description or Description of Table?

Summary/Abstract: The “table-description” differs from the “description of table” in that whereas the latter is limited to table’s voice to express, the former, in itself, is concerned with the discursive in quest for the table effect. Manifest in the table-description is the discursive item energized by intensity operators, which a paratactic syntax can drive, and which is combined with functional predicates. This device approximates the hypotyposis through the effect produced on the listener. In contrast, the “description of table” tends to become autonomous so as to explain a hermetic table. In this case, the diegetic purpose disappears in order to consolidate the representation of captured moments. Here, the attributive predicates and the spatiotemporal organizers are developed in the description. Voltaire makes use of each of these descriptions in some extracts of Candide, but the “table-description” or hypotyposis is given the task of updating the pain of humanity in the 18th century.

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