Perspective narrative dans « La Maison Tellier » : réalisme, ironie et humour
Narrative Perspective in La Maison Tellier: Realism, Irony and Humour

Narrative Perspective in La Maison Tellier: Realism, Irony and Humour

Summary/Abstract: The social and literary atmosphere of the second half of the 19th century led Maupassant to apply a sharp criticism on the French society; he used the whole range of satirical tones, from the kind irony to the biting sarcasm. In this essay, we emphasized the realistic aspects, entangled with the narrative and stylistics proceedings including irony and humour. We established the narrative perspective by a comparison between the narrative typology of Lintvelt and Genette’s theory of “focalisation”. Here the ideological position of the “model author” is to be deduced from the precise fictional universe that he describes. We proceeded with an analysis of several memorable scenes, in which the omniscient narrator excels in introducing, in an implicit way, his derision of this mercantile world, based upon the contrast between the apparent morality and the secret debauchery of some honourable citizens, along with the moral nonchalance of a few prostitutes.

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