Jean-Pierre Camus : la moralisation d’un genre immoral est-elle possible ?

• Authors: Maja Pawłowska

Title variants

EN

Jean-Pierre Camus: Is It Possible to Render an ‘Immoral Genre’ Moral?

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Camus complements his novels with long peritexts, thus using his ecclesiastic authority to legitimise their moral and didactic value. In these peritexts he juxtapposes the licentious novels with his own devout works of fiction, which are, in his own words, not only valuable and worth recommending, but also capable of saving the readers’ souls, put in danger by other texts. In any case, a close reading of these peritexts reveals a view which challenges the idea of the novel’s insidiousness and which bears witness to Camus’s great fascination with this officially condemned literary genre.

Keywords

FR

Jean-Pierre Camus; roman dévot (pious romance); novel; immoral genre; French 17th century novel

EN

Jean-Pierre Camus; roman dévot (pious romance); novel; immoral genre; French 17th century novel

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 32-39

Dates

published

2013-12-30

Contributors

author

Maja Pawłowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.4601