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

Rachwalska von Rejchwald, Jolanta2022-06-102022-06-102014"Quêtes littéraires" 2014, nº 4, s. 28-37http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/3140A 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.frAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ZolavagabondvagrantSecond EmpireLes Rougon-MacquartLe Ventre de ParisbourgeoisL’Homme-toupie. Le vagabond comme figure de la subversion dans Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile ZolaSpinning-top man. Vagabond as a personification of social order’s subversion in Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zolainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/ql.4569