LA BARBE BLEUE DE CHARLES PERRAULT ET BARBE BLEUE D’AMÉLIE NOTHOMB. DIALOGUE D’UN CONTE D’AUTREFOIS ET D’UN ROMAN D’AUJOURD’HUI
CHARLES PERRAULT’S LA BARBE BLEUE AND AMÉLIE NOTHOMB’S BARBE BLEUE. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN OLD FAIRY TALE AND A CONTEMPORARY NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: Fairy tales, issued from folklore, belong to a common heritage and that is why they undergo a constant transformation. In 2012, Amélie Nothomb draws the inspiration for her 21st novel Barbe bleue from this inexhaustible source. The paper discusses modifications introduced by the famous Belgian writer to Charles Perrault’s version of the fairy tale of Bluebeard observed in the chronotope and in the way characters are created, particularly in the aesthetic and spiritual proximity between the protagonist from Nothomb’s novel and its prototype.

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