„Autor to właśnie ja”: Gve Flaubert, czyli pisarz-rękopis

• Authors: Yvan Leclerc

Title variants

EN

“I myself am the author”: Gve Flaubert, or writer-manuscript

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article attempts to present and discuss the juvenile works of Gustave Flaubert. Though the writer never allowed these juvenile works to be published, being extremely critical of their aesthetic value, the works such as November, Memoirs of a Madman or the diary-form Cahier intime de 1840–1841 still make important texts that provide a sizeable amount of information on the writer’s literary workshop. Interestingly enough, these early works show the writer’s attachment to the manuscript (tantamount to the dislike to the written word) and the author’s tools (pen, ink and paper). These juvenile attempts, in the main autobiographical in nature, are thus penetrated by the metatext element that is a key input in providing an opportunity for a reflection on the way the text itself does exist: this element also informs us on Flaubert’s growing maturity that ultimately defined his role of a fully-fledged author. The paratext elements (epigraphs, dedications, inscriptions, dates and signatures) in his juvenile works seem to be just as important as they allow us to follow, step by step, the way to the birth of a writer-manuscript and thus a writer who gets his fulfillment and the very existence exclusively in a text of a manuscript character.

Keywords

PL

Gustave Flaubert; manuscripts; juvenile literature; genetic criticism

EN

Gustave Flaubert; manuscripts; juvenile literature; genetic criticism; Gustave Flaubert; manuscripts; juvenile literature; genetic criticism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 257-269

Dates

published

2012-01-01

Contributors

author

Yvan Leclerc

• Université de Rouen.

References

• Flaubert G., Listy, wyboru dokonał i przeł. W. Rogowicz, Warszawa 1957.
• Flaubert G., Œuvres complètes, vol. I, Œuvres de jeunesse, édition de C. Gothot-Mersch et G. Sagnes, Paris 2001.
• Flaubert G., Pamiętniki szaleńca, przeł. P. Śniedziewski, „Literatura na Świecie” 2011, nr 7–8.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2012.19.19