Mémoire et imagination dans la Jeunesse du Commandeur de l’abbé Prévost

• Authors: Tureková Andrea

Title variants

EN

MEMORY AND IMAGINATION IN ABBÉ PRÉVOST’S LA JEUNESSE DU COMMANDEUR

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This paper dedicated to the issue of the memory and the novel in the 18th century aims at questioning the memoir-novels, as a privileged form of the fiction during the first half of the century. The memoir-novel is indeed based on memories of a hero-narrator reminiscing about his past love life. As memory and imagination are strongly linked in the thought of the 17th and 18th century, the question of their relationship is particularly relevant in the novels by Antoine Prévost, insofar as his heroes claim to produce a pathetic effect and seduce their interlocutor/reader. Our reflection takes as an example La Jeunesse du Commandeur (1741) — a kind of “reverse story” to that of the Chevalier Des Grieux — where memory and imagination are put at the service of a burlesque treatment of passion.

Keywords

FR

roman français du XVIIIe siècle; roman-mémoires; seconde trilogie prévostienne; traitement; burlesque de la passion

EN

18th-century French novel; memoir-novel; Prévost’s second trilogy; burlesque treatment of passion

• 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: 2020
• Volume: XXX
• Issue: Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature
• Pages: 29-37

Contributors

author

Tureková Andrea

• Université d’Économie de Bratislava

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2020.3.2