Cunégonde, l’autre candide? Figure d’une voyageuse compulsive dans le récit voltairien, entre domination et émancipation
Cunégonde, Another Candide? A Figure of a Compulsive Traveller in the Voltairean Narrative, Between Domination and Emancipation

Author(s): Linda Gil
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: woman; heroine; travel; violence; learning; philosophy
Summary/Abstract: Reduced to an intermittent and caricaturized figure of a sexual object, Cunégonde is, at a closer reading, a strong character, sensitive and intelligent. Her forced trip is a discovery of female condition through the world, a real experience which forces the heroine to reconsider her destiny. Her philosophical learning is coherent and much quicker than this of the male hero. Pragmatism, sensibility and lucidity are the values we need to reconsider in this feminist reading of Candide. What questions does its trajectory pose in terms of education, gender relations, alterity, construction, violence, domination and women’s emancipation?

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