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12
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Français
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Documents
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2002
Description
The love story Les Travailleurs de la mer takes three patterns of the love plot and modifies them : that of the courtly novel, that of Moliere's comedy, and finally that of the story of Isaac and Rebecca in Genesis. The modifications carried out allow us to assess progress as well as the positive outcome of the democratic revolution. They also reveal their own limitations : love is a part of History, yet at the same time, it resists its impulse towards freedom. Indeed, love is the supreme fatality, the ananke of desire, as it is represented in the novel, through two strangely similar incarnations of feminity, the octopus and Deruchette. In fact, the archaic sexuality of which the octopus is the grotesque and horrible representation is not ultimately tragic and Hugo 's hero can confront it without dying. Death will corne through the bird-woman : sublimation is the moving force of the tragedy of love.
11 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié le
01 janvier 2002
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo