Androgynes et gynandres: la relecture péladanienne du Banquet de Platon

• Authors: Voldřichová Beránková Eva

Title variants

EN

ANDROGYNES AND GYNANDRES: THE PÉLADAN’S REINTERPRETATION OF THE SYMPOSIUM BY PLATO

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The Symposium alias The Banquet belongs to those hypotexts by Plato which have been constantly reread and reinterpreted by the authors of French decadence. This article is focused on the Péladan’s reinterpretation of one of its parts, the famous Aristophanes’s speech about love. It implies on one hand the masculine notion of “androgyne”, heavily valorised in the fin de siècle novels, and, on the other hand, the feminine concept of “gynandre”, perceived negatively, feared and mocked. Why in Péladan’s (1858–1918) eyes and according to many others decadent authors man is gorgeous and intelligent enough to realize on his own the platonic ideal of the union of the two sexes? And what about the woman, henceforth outmoded and “useless”? The decadent misogyny ties itself in knots over its fanciful theories which are reflective of the spirit of this historical period.

Keywords

FR

androgyne; mythologie; Platon; Péladan; décadence

EN

androgyne; mythology; Plato; Péladan; decadence

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: 107-116

Contributors

author

Voldřichová Beránková Eva

• Institut d’Études Romanes, Faculté des Lettres, Université Charles de Prague