Occurrences et dénonciation des « idées reçues » dans la création nouvellesque de Guy de Maupassant

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.16.09

Słowa kluczowe:

short stories, inherited ideas, cliché, social conformism, moral prejudice, irony, sarcasm

Abstrakt

In this essay I intend to show how Maupassant turned his short stories into a denouncement area of the ‘inherited ideas’, which mean commonly accepted ideas, such as those included by Flaubert in his Dictionary of inherited ideas. In this part of Maupassant’s literary work, the syntagm ‘inherited ideas’ acquires several different meanings, such as: some commonplace topics of the French bourgeoisie, the hasty taking up of fashionable words, attitudes, or cultural clichés, which one may come across in everyday life, the tendency of accepting as unchallenged some social, moral or religious prejudices, or foolish beliefs and unjust statements, authoritatively uttered by ordinary people. I’ll also emphasize the manner Maupassant treated the ‘inherited ideas’ by his ironical hints and the narrator’s affective implication, in spite of his seeming impassibility.

Bibliografia

Flaubert, Gustave 1979 : Bouvard et Pécuchet, avec un choix des scénarios, du Sottisier, L’album de la Marquise et Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues. Paris, Gallimard.

Forestier, Louis 1974 : « Notices, notes et variantes ». In : G. de Maupassant : Contes et nouvelles. T. 1. Paris, Gallimard, p. 1331 ; 1334.

Maupassant, Guy de 1974–1979 : Contes et nouvelles. T. 1–2. Paris, Gallimard, coll. «Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ».

Vial, André 1954 : Guy de Maupassant et l’art du roman. Paris, Nizet.

Opublikowane

2021-02-15

Jak cytować

Anghel, L. (2021). Occurrences et dénonciation des « idées reçues » dans la création nouvellesque de Guy de Maupassant. Romanica Silesiana, 16(2), 93–104. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.16.09