Исказ у првом лицу у француској књижевности 17. вијека: роман, мемоарска и епистоларна књижевност
First-person Testimony in 17th-century French Literature: Novel, Memoir, and Epistolary Literature

Summary/Abstract: The paper is about the presence of first-person utterances — homodiegetic and autodiegetic — in the novelistic, memoir, and epistolary French literature of the 17th century. The introduction presents an overview of the general climate of consciousness which, especially since the middle of the century, was more and more inclined to the moralizing spirit, and under the considerable influence of Jansenist thought. The next section represents a review of the abovementioned genres and the representation of "autobiographical" expression, in a broader sense, in some representative literary works of that time, as an attempt to give an overview of the presence, position and function of self-expression in these genres, as well as their relations with ethical and aesthetic canons that were becoming more and more specific in the period of classicism. It is concluded that, in addition to the prevailing customs in the moral and aesthetic spheres, the treated genres violate them in their own ways, in favor of increasingly clear autoreflexivity and autobiographical expression that would gain full momentum in the next century.

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