Les épreuves qui ralentissent le destin dans les contes de Madame d’Aulnoy
The trials that slow down destiny in the tales of Madame d’Aulnoy

Author(s): Ioana-Rucsandra Dascălu
Subject(s): French Literature, 17th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: tale; rythm; parody; description; ellipsis; trials;
Summary/Abstract: By analyzing two tales of Madame d’Aulnoy in this paper, we propose ourselves to show the way she transforms Apuleius’ consecrated tale Cupid and Psyché through parody (in Gracieuse and Percinet), qualifying it as slow by comparison with the Latin model. Afterwards we focus on the rythm of writing in Gracieuse and Percinet and The Blue Bird, emphasizing the former as an example for descriptive pause (for portraits and other landscapes) and the latter as an example for ellipsis by the shortening of time and space intervals. We also study the trials feminine characters achieve in order to master their own destiny.

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