L’Homme-toupie. Le vagabond comme figure de la subversion dans Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile Zola

• Authors: Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald

Title variants

EN

Spinning-top man. Vagabond as a personification of social order’s subversion in Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zola

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

A vagrant Florent Quenu serves as a methaphor of social-political shift that strikes France in the late XIX-th century. Intimidated by the magnitude of change, upon his return Florent wanders the streets, meanders and strolls in circles which casts a horrendous contradiction with the austerity of Hausmann’s new Paris, aligned with omnipresent straight line forms. This geometrical collision of a straight line and a curve is symptomatic of ferocious conflict between the Second Empire and the alternative social model embodied in the Florent’s attitude.

Keywords

FR

Zola; vagabond; vagrant; Second Empire; Les Rougon-Macquart; Le Ventre de Paris; bourgeois

EN

Zola; vagabond; vagrant; Second Empire; Les Rougon-Macquart; Le Ventre de Paris; bourgeois

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 28-37

Dates

published

2014-12-30

Contributors

author

Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.4569