Le (dé)montage impie des sens chez Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

• Authors: Opiela-Mrozik Anna

Title variants

EN

The Impious (Dis)section of Senses in Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Œuvre

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the narrative and formal measures which Villiers de l’Isle-Adam used in his texts to distort the message of a literary work, thereby leaving the reader uncertain of the œuvre’s final sense. Villiers developed the peculiar esthetics of reversion, which is not only based on the transformation of well-known motives and the merciless destruction of the traditional value system, but also exists on the level of paratext and language itself. Providing texts with a dedication and a motto or a seemingly nonessential sentence in the end allows Villiers to transform the nascent sense and makes it ambiguous. By these measures, the writer makes so-called “unbelievable parables,” the sense of which is formed and deformed, and as a result must evade the reader. The language of characters and moments of silence, which are opposed to logorrhea connected with laughter, play a very important role in this process. Therefore, this article shows the ways which are used to veil or even hide the true intentions of the author.

Keywords

EN

sense; (dis)section; ambiguity; irony; satire; language; silence

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 347-355

Contributors

author

Opiela-Mrozik Anna

• Université de Varsovie

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2020.9