AVATARS DE LA DUALITÉ DANS LA NOUVELLE « UN AMOUR À L’ÉLYSÉE » D’ERIC EMMANUEL SCHMITT
AVATARS OF DUALITY IN « UN AMOUR À L’ÉLYSÉE » BY ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT

Summary/Abstract: The ancient theme of the double is highly fertile in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s short-stories, who thus inscribes his creations in the literary tradition invoked by the critic Thierry Ozwald, for whom duality touches all the components of any short-story, becoming « a law of the genre ». The present article aims to examine the means of the double in the short-story « Un amour à l’Élysée » grouped along three axes: duality and social life, duality and affective life, duality and ontological quest. Each thematic manifestation of the double corresponds to a narrative technique that reinforces it: free indirect speech, theatrical dialogues, mise en abyme. The article also aims to analyze the dialogue of this text with the literary tradition of the double, emphasizing the aspects of continuity on the one hand and of innovation on the other hand.

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