L’écrivain fictif entre caricature et modélisation au tournant du XIXe siècle
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2020-12-30
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II; Werset
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Durant la Belle Époque, le roman de l’écrivain supplante progressivement le roman du peintre et se constitue en un filon qui donne lieu à une interrogation sur le rôle de l'homme de lettres dans la société bourgeoise et sur les causes de son désarroi. L’auteur véhicule ainsi à travers son œuvre un portrait axiologique de soi qui, renvoyant implicitement à la difficulté de la création, rend compte des valeurs qui façonnent la fin de siècle. La modélisation qui en découle intègre la caricature, devenue omniprésente au XIXe siècle, non seulement pour la charge parodique qui la caractérise, mais pour le pouvoir désormais accepté que l’exagération, la déformation et la blague détiennent dans l’interprétation du réel. De Huysmans à Gide, de Lorrain à Gourmont, de Dumur à Mauclair, Mirbeau ou Céard, le roman de l’écrivain fait de la caricature et de la dévaluation la garantie de l’authenticité de la projection autofictive.
During the Belle Époque, the writer’s novel gradually replaces the painter’s novel and forms a platform for asking questions about the role of the author in bourgeois society and the causes of their distress. Through this work, the author thus conveys an axiological portrait of himself which, implicitly referring to the difficulty of creation, gives an account of the values shaping the end of the century. The resulting modelling incorporates caricature, which becomes omnipresent in the 19th century, not only for the parodical load that characterises it, but for the accepted power that exaggeration, distortion and joke hold in the interpretation of reality. From Huysmans to Gide, from Lorrain to Gourmont, from Dumur to Mauclair, Mirbeau or Céard, the writer’s novel makes caricature and the devaluation a guarantee of the authenticity of the fictional self-projection.
During the Belle Époque, the writer’s novel gradually replaces the painter’s novel and forms a platform for asking questions about the role of the author in bourgeois society and the causes of their distress. Through this work, the author thus conveys an axiological portrait of himself which, implicitly referring to the difficulty of creation, gives an account of the values shaping the end of the century. The resulting modelling incorporates caricature, which becomes omnipresent in the 19th century, not only for the parodical load that characterises it, but for the accepted power that exaggeration, distortion and joke hold in the interpretation of reality. From Huysmans to Gide, from Lorrain to Gourmont, from Dumur to Mauclair, Mirbeau or Céard, the writer’s novel makes caricature and the devaluation a guarantee of the authenticity of the fictional self-projection.
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roman de l'écrivain, caricature, fin de siècle, ethos, writer's novel
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Quêtes littéraires, nᵒ 10, décembre 2020, p. 159-70