Une illustration littéraire du mythe de l'Éternel Retour : « Le Jardin des supplices » d'Octave Mirbeau (1899)

• Authors: Samuel Lair

Title variants

EN

Le Jardin des supplices of Octave Mirbeau as a literary illustration of the eternal return myth (1899)

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In Mirbeau's novel Le Jardin des supplices (1899), the circular representation, completed and relayed by design of the plant, should be read violently. The reader conceives some philosophical influences or convergences. The Narcissus myth is subjected here to a literary transmutation. The novel tells a personal obsession; it becomes a reconciliation between earlier fictions [L'Abbé Jules (1888), Dans le ciel (1892-1893)] and his dramatic work which is coming.

Keywords

EN

Mirbeau Octave; Jardin des supplices

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 35
• Pages: 49-65

Dates

published

2008-12-01

Contributors

author

Samuel Lair

References

• Chevalier J., Gheerbrant A. (1994), Dictionnaire des symboles, Paris : Laffont. Collection Bouquins.
• Mirbeau O. (1990), « Le Calvaire », in : Les Romans autobiographiques, Paris : Le M ercure de France.
• Mirbeau O. (1990), Contes cruels, Paris : Séguier.
• Mirbeau O. (1990), Le Jardin des supplices, Paris : Folio Gallimard.
• Mirbeau O. (1977), La 628-E8, Paris : UGE. 10/18.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2008.35.004