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Volume 67, Issue 3-4
  • ISSN: 0024-1415
  • E-ISSN: 2295-8991

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Abstract

Le premier grand livre de René Girard, , reste à ce jour une des rares tentatives d’esquisser une histoire intégrée du roman moderne, qui s’attacherait pour l’essentiel, pour abonder dans leur sens ou au contraire pour les mettre en perspective, aux psychopathologies du désir mimétique. Sa fresque reste inévitablement assez lacunaire et passe presque sans transition de Cervantès à Stendhal ; la présente étude voudrait montrer que le premier roman de Mme de Lafayette rejoint à sa manière la trajectoire indiquée par René Girard, dont elle propose toutefois une mise en scène plus complaisante que proprement critique.

Abstract

Girard’s first critical achievement remains still today one of the rare convincing attempts to elaborate a consistent and really integrated global history of the modern novel, that should propose essentially, from Cervantes to Proust, a series of euphoric or critical views of the complex psychopathology of mimetic desire. Girard’s brilliant panoramic essay is although inevitably schematic and incomplete; the greatest gap concerns the 17th and 18th centuries. My paper should prove that Mme de Lafayette’s first novel, , joins on his specific way the trajectory suggested by René Girard: the main plot of the novel seems rather conventional, but looks less arbitrary if you read it as a systematical attempt to coronate the mimetic (and “metaphysic”) illusions of the protagonist.

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2013-07-01
2025-12-05

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