DON JUAN DANS LA LITTÉRATURE. UN TRAITEMENT IRONIQUE DU MYTHE DE PROMÉTHÉE ?
DON JUAN IN THE LITERATURE. IRONIC TREATMENT OF THE PROMETHETIC MYTH?

Summary/Abstract: Don Juan is one of the most notorious characters in literature. Its famous story has been told and retold by many authors, each of them exploiting different features of the character. Some of the critics have even classified Don Juan as a literary myth, basing their consideration on the very large and constant presence of the character in literature. Our paper deals with some of the recurrences of the character of the conqueror in French literature. The aim is, on one hand, to observe its passage from the first literary version, that of Tirso de Molina to some French versions and, on the other hand, to observe if the literary versions of Don Juan can be considered, as Gilbert Durand affirmed, a deformation of the classical myth of Prometheus, by ironical means.

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