LA DIMENSION SPATIALE DANS TROIS CONTES (UN COEUR SIMPLE) DE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
THE SPATIAL DIMENSION IN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT’S TROIS CONTES (UN COEUR SIMPLE)

Summary/Abstract: Gustave Flaubert’s novel, Trois contes (Three Tales), a collection published in a serial in Le Moniteur Universel (1877) and then in volumes, composed of the tales Un Coeur simple, La Légende de Saint Julien l’hospitalier and Hérodias (A simple Heart, The Legend of Saint Julien the Hospitaller and Herodias), deploys the themes of the death and charity using a simple narrative composition. Our study focuses on the first tale, A simple heart, and on its character Félicité and deals with a meticulous analysis of the spatial dimension in narration as a binary ratio between orientation/non orientation, initial limit/[center ]/final limit, open space/closed space. We intend to explain how the action of the tale advances in space through events and representations of nature and the environment; we thus want to individualize the spatial datum and the binary oppositions that start the action and the characters.

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