L’Homme-toupie. Le vagabond comme figure de la subversion dans Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile Zola

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2014
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
Abstract
A vagrant, Florent Quenu, serves as a methaphor of the social-political shift that strikes France in the late XIX-th century. Intimidated by the magnitude of change, upon his return Florent wanders the streets, meanders and strolls in circles which casts a horrendous contradiction with the austerity of Hausmann’s new Paris, aligned with omnipresent straight line forms. This geometrical collision of a straight line and a curve is symptomatic of ferocious conflict between the Second Empire and the alternative social model embodied in the Florent’s attitude.
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Zola, vagabond, vagrant, Second Empire, Les Rougon-Macquart, Le Ventre de Paris, bourgeois
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2014, nº 4, s. 28-37
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