LA COULEUR D’UNE GUERRE : LA BATAILLE DU MACAR (LE ROMAN SALAMMBÔ DE FLAUBERT)
THE COLOR OF A WAR: THE BATTLE OF MACAR (FLAUBERT’S NOVEL SALAMMBÔ)

Summary/Abstract: The novel Salammbô (1862, Paris, Michel Lévy), seen as the sum of the thematic in colours and details, often analyzed as belonging to romanticism (as a historical or archaeological novel) for its descriptions and its characters, to realism for the action eventful imprinted by the Mercenary War (in the 3rd century BC), to naturalism for the suggested sensations, is Flaubert's creation, a mixture of cruel scenes of war, crimes, violence, love and religious exaltation.In our study, we want to demonstrate, by analyzing the examples taken from the novel Salammbô (the chapter The Battle of the Macar), that the romantic Flaubert, avenging himself on a Flaubert adept of impersonality and impassibility, and nourished by so many travels and documents, recreates the sensation of a single colour, the red one, as the colour that dominates his book; that he imposes, in the episode of the Battle ofthe Macar, the spirit of red-carnage, hidden and spread red.

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