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Кралят, кръстоносецът и човекът Луи IX според Жоанвил – ценности и емоции

Author(s): Amelia Milcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2020

In Jean de Joinville’s text Vie de Saint Louis around King Louis IX’s personality several emotional communities are formed. The most important of them unifies the crusaders of the Seventh Crusade in Egypt. The values in that emotional community are related to King Louis IX’s qualities. Some smaller emotional communities are formed around the king including mainly his interlocutors. The dialogs with the king mentioned in the text and Louis IX’s exploits described by Joinville illustrate the qualities as well as the emotions of the king-crusader as a human and a saint. The personality of Louis IX possesses according to Joinville’s text specific emotionality different from the traditional stereotypes.

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André Malraux au coeur du musée imaginaire de Romain Gary

Author(s): Jonathan Barkate / Language(s): French Issue: Appendix/2022

Malraux is in the center of Gary’s imaginary museum. His name and thought are regularly quoted in Gary’s work. When the author of Pour Sganarelle, La Promesse de l’aube and La Danse de Gengis Cohn refers to the metamorphosis and the museum without walls – two concepts Malraux invented –, he uses Malraux’s image and writings to reveal how himself sees the world and the artist’s role. To analyse those quotes leads to reading Gary’s work through the lens of Malraux’s. It also shows how Gary portrays himself as a « conqueror of the impossible » while making his model embody his own aesthetic and ethical aspirations. His selfportrait as a jumping jack makes Gary follow the path of his friend, who elevated Man by softening his condition.

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Le(s) sens et la lecture chez Pascal Quignard : du Lecteur à L’Homme aux trois lettres

Author(s): Galyna Dranenko / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

This study will attempt to underline the various forms and functions Pascal Quignard assigns to reading in his different texts. To begin with, we will consider the subtle distinctions and links he creates between silence reading, loneliness reading and wandering reading. In this respect, particular attention will be paid to the relationships which are woven between reading and loneliness in texts by this solitary and unusual author. In the second part the focus will be on the evolution of the concept of reading for the author of L’Homme aux trois lettres (2020), who is anxious to develop an “oceanic” work. Indeed literature as “an elusive prey”, according to the author, is not about sense, but about the senses. Finally we shall conclude that in Pascal Quignard’s works, which defy any oversimplified characterization or classification as far as genres are concerned, reading appears above all as a sensual experiment which leads the reader to some sort of condition close to disappearing and annihilation, in the symbolic or even the mystic sense one can give these terms.

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L’esthétique perceptive et l’interprétation des finales littéraires à travers le cliffhanger (le cas du roman Le Mystère de la chambre jaune de Gaston Leroux)

Author(s): Hanna Kost / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

The paper aims to consider the phenomenon of the cliffhanger as one of the narrative techniques for ending a work of art. A cliffhanger involves creating intrigue or intense anticipation of the outcome both in the final part and in individual episodes of the work. In literary texts, the cliffhanger is presented as a meta-narrative phenomenon, as the writer offers a multi-vector development of the plot line involving complex situations and conflicts, the causes and solutions of which are often hidden or unclear. Such plot modeling leads to in uncertainty, a sense of mystery and an emotional climax. It is the reader who must build a hypothetical relationship between the events and characters described, determining their place and role in the development of the topic, based on textual data, their own reading experience, associations and perceptual abilities. Thus, a cliffhanger is an integral part of building and resolving artistic conflicts. In the novel The Secret of the Yellow Room, it is represented by the actual linguistic and stylistic parameters and extralinguistic characteristics that stimulate the perceptual activity of the reader.

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Le périple erratique de la mendiante durassienne

Author(s): Anna Ledwina / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

Marguerite Duras focuses on a rejected individual on the margins of society. Her literary characters oppose being perceived as devoid of autonomy, contesting the fixed model of a submissive and passive woman. On the contrary, they reject the social order and the traditional system of values, claiming the right to freedom and thus demonstrating transgressive female behaviour. Duras’ heroine, a mysterious, crazy person who is looking for love and is aware of her otherness and alienation, appears as a kind of femme fatale or a witch. This image of a “different” woman – a disturbing, unhappy, lost, borderline person experiencing a specific crisis – is best illustrated by a beggar. She identifies, par excellence, with the wandering to the lands of perdition and its various readings. Her journey is, at the same time, a sign of dereliction, an attempt at liberation and a quest for identity.

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La conversion de Durtal dans La Cathédrale, carrefour de métamorphoses sociales, spirituelles et sémantiques

Author(s): Aleksandra Kamińska / Language(s): French Issue: 17/2022

The present paper explores Durtal’s conversion as the refusal of any fixed reference. The reflections of the hero on his personal experience, but also on the social transformations are characterised by the metaphysical seriousness and semantic experiments. The constant lexical substitution arouses the curiosity of the reader: its referential opacity is only apparent. Thus, the writer emphasizes that going beyond the beaten path requires a new mode of expression where meaning no longer depends on the rehashing of commonplaces, but relies on semantic mismatches and prolonged tensions between juxtaposed terms. Likewise, social transformations strongly disapproved of by the hero become the source of paradoxical reasoning where truth is expressed through the negativity of judgment. Nevertheless, despite the lucidity of his social and ethical judgments, Durtal remains blind to the imperfection of his own conversion. Moreover, the frequent recourse to paradox demonstrates that the protagonist is still in doubt which announce a long spiritual path of true conversion.

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Élet és irodalom árnyai

Author(s): Annamária Codău / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 863/2023

Review of: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: Az emberek legtitkosabb emlékezete. Fordította Bognár Róbert. Park Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2022.

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SALAH STETIE, UN POETE IMPORTANT DU MONDE

Author(s): Ștefan Vlăduțescu / Language(s): French Issue: 16/2019

This study attempts to cast the profile of an important poet of the contemporary world. It is argued that Salah Stétié is one of the poets who fit into the aesthetic emblem of the current French lyric. It is emblematic in terms of altitude, depth, creativity, expressiveness and openness to the French culture of recent centuries.

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Biblioteca babel

Author(s): Maurice Maeterlinck / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2023

Poems by; Maurice Maeterlinck - ”Dorințe iarna”, ”Rond de plictis”, ”Amin”, ”Acvariu”, ”Viziuni”, ”Pahar arzând”, ”Orație”, ”Priviri”, ”Reflexe”, ”După-amiază”, ”Suflet de seră”, ”Așteptare”, ”Intenții”, ”Atingeri”, ”Suflet de noapte”.

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UNE ANALYSE ZOOPOÉTIQUE DU RÉCIT DE VOYAGE LA PANTHÈRE DES NEIGES DE SYLVAIN TESSON

Author(s): Maria Simota / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2023

A zoopoetic approach to the travelogue La panthère des neiges by Sylvain Tesson. The present article aims to explore in broad lines the evolution of French zoopoetics thought and its main directions of research. Unlike the anglophone animal studies, the French zoopoetics is offering a slightly different methodology, much more focused on thematic and narratological aspects. In order to exemplify the paradigm shift produced by the zoopoetic approach in France, we will focus our article on Sylvain Tesson’s travelogue La panthère des neiges (2019). The travelogue, through its referential dimension, marks a transition from the generalizing perspective of the animal world to a specific, local and individual approach.

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homo viator - Fondane vagabondul și Ulise... (II)

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2023

Titlul eseului meu aflat acum la al doilea episod publicat în Vatra sugerează deja interpretarea pe care o voi face. În 1933, Fondane publică nu doar poemul Ulise, ci și eseul său revelatoriu despre un poet totemic francez, întemeietor al poeziei moderne – Rimbaud le voyou.

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LE COMIQUE DE DANIEL PENNAC A TRAVERS LES COUVERTURES DE SES LIVRES

Author(s): Raluca Cristina Dragomir / Language(s): French Issue: 31/2022

We all know the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”. But, in fact, the cover is an invitation intended to catch the eye, to arouse the interest of the reader to buy the volume and dive into the story. Its composition must, therefore, be carefully crafted to reflect the content of the book as much as possible and not to betray the intentions of the writer. In this paper, we analyze the front cover and the back cover of the novels of the Malaussène Saga by Daniel Pennac, a novel cycle published by Gallimard Publishing House between 1985 and 2023.

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ŒDIPE ACTEUR ET METTEUR EN SCÈNE. « JEU » ET « JE ». QUELQUES CONSIDÉRATIONS À PARTIR DE L’« ŒDIPE » D’ANDRÉ GIDE

Author(s): Diana-Adriana Lefter / Language(s): French Issue: 31/2022

Our paper discusses the issue of theatricality in André Gide’s « Oedipus » We start from the premise that this theatricality does not only reside in the construction of the text, but also in the construction of the story, centered on Oedipus actor and stage director. What we propose in this approach is to show that there is an important projection of Gide’s recurring that Gide makes of his Oedipus an actor and also a stage director who is more conscient than ignorant, who knows that he is playing a role and who directs and observes the behavior of others because he knows the story in advance, while pretending to discover it at the same time as the others. Oedipus knows who he is, but he stages the perfection of a conjugal and family happiness which validates his political power.

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Użyteczna wyspa

Author(s): Ireneusz Gielata / Language(s): Polish Issue: 38/2022

Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island, in unanimous opinion of critics, is the most “mysterious” of all the writer’s novels. The article’s author asks questions about what secrets this novel reveals to the contemporary reader who has recently become aware that he lives in the time of “anthropocene marasmus” (E. Bińczyk). He finds answers by confronting the text of Verne’s novel with the views of English utilitarians (J. Bentham, J. S. Mill) and the works of contemporary thinkers (R. Brague, The Kingdom of Man. The Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project, P. Sloterdijk, What Happened in the 20th Century?), and this allowed The Mysterious Island to be considered a prophetic work, another version of a modern story about the fall of man, who, believing in his creative power and the power of instrumental reason, does not see (like the characters of the novel) that the nature he uses marks the end of human agency. This kind of blindness, into which a group of nature colonizers collapse, carrying out their modernist project of “creating of ‘nothing’”, was considered a kind of anthropocene hybris.

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L’espace-temps mallarméen : entre fatalité immanente et exutoire imminent dans Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé

Author(s): Koué Kévin Boumy / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

The article focuses on Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry read in time and space. If it is clear that the space-time duo, in their configuration, actively participates in the disintegration of the figure of the poet; with Stéphane Mallarmé, the metaphysical crisis of movement (powerlessness) and memory (regret) corrupts any possibility of taking advantage of the “here” and “now”. While mentioning the brilliance of an Azur out of reach in the space and the time, an “Azure to stare at while dying of hunger” (Mallarmé, Divagations, 1889), this article shows the modalities of a sublimated quest for an “elsewhere” and a “past”, resulting in a metaphysical dissatisfaction. This failure of the transcendental quest remains in a way the failure to free oneself from one’s human condition and also the failure of a poetry of the unspeakable.

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LA POÉTIQUE DE LA MATERNITÉ DANS L’ESPACE CONTEMPORAIN DANS LE ROMAN ET QUE NE DURENT QUE LES MOMENTS DOUX DE VIRGINIE GRIMALDI

Author(s): Teodora Cernău / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022

In the novel “Et que ne durent que les moments doux” (2020), the French writer Virginie Grimaldi creates a space in which motherhood is seen at different stages in a woman’s life. The writer questions the values and cultural myths related to motherhood, while emphasizing the transformational dimension of the experience. If the concept of motherhood is usually correlated with notions such as giving birth, breastfeeding, the female body or raising children, the intertwined stories of Lili and Elise peel off some of the idyllic aura of motherhood and bring to light the emptiness felt once a woman becomes a mother. In the novel, the representations of motherhood are illustrated by two diametrically opposed experiences: the trauma of giving birth prematurely and the empty-nest syndrome. In this article, I will focus on analyzing two unexpected spaces: the neonatal incubator and the empty nest that forces the mother to start a journey towards her own self. The poetics of motherhood entails a discourse about identity, guilt, rediscovery, and new beginnings.

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L’An deux mille quatre cent quarante – voyage imaginaire dans le temps selon le schéma canonique

Author(s): Stanisław Świtlik / Language(s): French Issue: 35/2023

The aim of this paper is to comment the links between the work of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever The WasOne, and narrative utopia model. The Mercier’s work is often consideredas inventive fiction which presents a new type of utopia focusedon the future, but a large number of traditional narrative strategiesis used by the author to show Paris in 25th century. The futurecivilization is built on the Enlightenment ideas but it remains stillattached by its culture to the 18th century. The Mercier’s work is inspiredby the utopism but in this fiction the reader finds more a fictionalrealization of dreams and philosophical thinking about human nature.

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FROM WEDLOCK TO DEADLOCK: MADAME BOVARY’S PATH TOWARD SELF-DESTRUCTION

Author(s): Ali Salami,Saeedeh Esmailzadeh / Language(s): English Issue: 45/2023

By undertaking an investigation into the unexplored thicket of nineteenth-century ideology, this study reappraises the rationale behind Emma Bovary’s suicide. The historical examination in this article reveals that the doctrine of the separate spheres exerted a great influence on the lives of middleclass women. Furthermore, the practice of this doctrine resulted in the reinforcement of a rigid housewife/harlot dichotomy. As the upshot of such an ideology, an association was made between women in public and the public women i.e. the prostitutes. By unearthing the traces of this ideology in Madame Bovary, this article aims to substantiate that as a middle-class woman, Emma’s longing for public life culminates in her identification with the figure of the prostitute. This abject metamorphosis, which is the ramification of societal adherence to the doctrine of separate spheres, ushers her toward her ultimate suicidal act.

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Madeleine Férat ou la mémoire dans la peau : l’imprégnation comme procédé mémoriel dans le roman naturaliste

Author(s): Katherine Rondou / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2023

By the time Émile Zola published Madeleine Férat (1868), the motif of the amorous courtesan was already a Romantic cliché. The future leader of the Naturalists therefore wished to distance himself from an outdated concept of the repenting lost woman, and seized upon the embodiment par excellence of the converted sinner in the Judeo-Christian imagination, Saint Mary Magdalene, in order to subvert it. While the Gospels build the character on the dichotomy of fall and redemption, the novelist does not allow his heroine to forget her past. Chapter after chapter, the writer suggests the relentless progression of Madeleine Férat’s dramatic destiny, modernising the ancient Fatum, as he will later do in the Rougon-Macquart novels, by drawing on the medical theories of his time, in this case Dr Prosper Lucas’s publications on seminal impregnation. In spite of herself, Madeleine Férat is subject to the domination of physiological laws that clash with her moral values, and suicide seems to be her only way out. Under Zola’s pen, Marie de Magdala becomes a tragic heroine.

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Misères et splendeurs de la "chikha". L’art comme consécration dans "Rue du pardon" de Mahi Binebine

Author(s): Mohamed Semlali / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2023

In Rue du pardon (Street of Forgiveness), Mahi Binebine presents us with a marvellous tale in which a child confronts the ugliness of his pitiless environment and the monstrosity of his failing parents, guilty of a double transgression. These trials transform the tale into a novel, and the exposed child (abandoned to his fate) into an emancipated being. After the experience of rejection and the traumatic ordeal of rape, the heroine, saved and guided by the diva Serghinia, finds in the performing arts (dance and song) a saving refuge and, above all, a voice that enables her to express and exorcise abjection. The abused female body is resculpted into a living work of art. As in other novels, notably L'Ombre du poète, Terre d'ombre brûlée and Le Seigneur vous le rendra, Mahi Binebine's Rue du pardon places the artist at the center of representation. This article attempts to show how the novelist, by rehabilitating the chikha, a female artistic figure from Morocco's popular heritage, promotes a discreet feminism in which art becomes a means of access to freedom and a denunciation of social hypocrisy.

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