L’amour au ralenti: fleurs et leurres de l’idylle au XIIe siècle
Love in slow motion: flowers and lures of idyll in the 12th century

Author(s): Brîndușa GRIGORIU
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: The Romance of Floire and Blancheflor; medieval art of loving; narrative speed; Neoplatonist reminiscences;
Summary/Abstract: Slow love is the secret recipe of Floire and Blancheflor’s evergreen Conte, which started in the 1150’s as one of the first and most treasured romances in French literature, destined to a multicentennial career across Europe. It is this hermeneutic hypothesis that we explore in the present article by focusing on the author’s overt appropriation of Neoplatonist reminiscences and by highlighting the correspondence between narrative speed and philosophic positioning in some of the most representative episodes in the heroes’ quest for erotic and ultimately spiritual bliss.

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