La forme du conte et son influence sur la lecture des personnages de Curiosité d’Anne Terral

• Authors: Front Izabela

Title variants

EN

FAIRY TALE STRUCTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE INTERPRETATION OF CHARACTERS IN ANNE TERRAL’S CURIOSITÉ

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Published in 2009, Anne Terral’s novel Curiosité is a modern version of Bluebeard. Not only does the author use the story to write her own novel but, what is even more important, she also borrows certain formal elements from fairy tales, such as time and space treatment, unrealistic atmosphere and archetypal nature of characters. It seems crucial then to examine what poetic possibilities have come out of the union of a novel with a fairy tale. The assumption is that the presence of the elements listed above allows the author to tell the story of a murder in a symbolic manner. Those elements suspend the standard judgment of facts, typical for criminal, psychological or realistic novel. In consequence, the reader does not condemn the count of Furbach for killing his wives nor does he perceive Arian’s behavior as insane because of her feelings for the count. Thanks to the denial of verisimilitude Curiosité becomes a metaphoric novel of love and trust.

Keywords

FR

conte merveilleux; personnage; poétique; déréalisation du monde

EN

fairy tale; character; poetics; unreal world

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 92-99

Contributors

author

Front Izabela

• Institut de Langues Romanes et de Traduction, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Silésie