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Chateaubriand and Vanity: Varietas or Pascalian Bet?
- Source :
- Quêtes Littéraires, Iss 8 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- francaisChateaubriand a produit une œuvre paradoxale : il fut accuse de vanite bien qu’il ait combattu sans relâche la vanite ; il employa le terme de vanite sous toutes ses acceptions, cela contrairement a ses contemporains ou ses predecesseurs, Retz et Rousseau. D’ou ces questions : doit-on reduire son œuvre a une vaine ποικιλiα, un exercice de rhetorique egocentrique procedant du miroitement et de la profusion, ou doit-on considerer son auteur comme un moraliste, continuateur de Pascal et donc un « monstre incomprehensible » a son siecle ? EnglishChateaubriand’s work is a paradox: he was accused of being vain although he endlessly fought against vanity; he used all the meanings of the word vanity, this, contrary to contemporaneous writers or predecessors like Rousseau and Retz. Hence these questions: Should we reduce his work to a vain and egocentric rhetorical exercise full of brilliance and profusion, varietas, or should we consider its author as the heir of a moralist like Pascal and therefore an “incomprehensible monster” during his century.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature
Philosophy
lcsh:Literature (General)
Auteur theory
vanity
Pascal (programming language)
lcsh:PN1-6790
Pascal
lcsh:PQ1-3999
Montaigne
Rhetorical question
vanité
Retz
Rousseau
Humanities
computer
La Rochefoucauld
Monster
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- French
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quêtes Littéraires, Iss 8 (2018)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dd70bcdf28ecb7647fbe050de57526a9