Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):195-203 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.030
Les masques fin-de-siècle. Poétiques de la simulaton et de la dissimulation dans le roman symbolisteFrench
- Université Charles, Prague
Mots clés: roman symboliste; simulation; dissimulation; pseudonyme; genres littéraires
The Masks of the fin-de-siècle. Poetics of simulation and dissimulation in symbolist novel
Faithful to the teachings of Baudelaire, for whom "the exclusive sense of the Truth [...] oppresses and stifles Beauty" and who defines poetry as "what is completely true only in another world", the authors of the fin-de-siècle develop a real "aesthetics of elsewhere" in which strategies of simulation and dissimulation play a crucial role. Pretending to be someone else, "lying" about the genre of their own texts, multiplying misunderstandings between the characters (male or female? human being or artificial creature? alive or dead?), keeping the reader in suspense by endless digressions which dissimulate the real purpose of the story or, on the contrary, simulating a conclusion that will be disproved by the rest of the novel, Symbolist novelists multiply traps to arouse the reader to 'extreme consciousness', unthinkable without mask-wearing. Based on a corpus of texts by Remy de Gourmont, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Édouard Dujardin and others writers, the article summarizes different ways of simulation and dissimulation and deduces from them some general principles of Symbolist poetics.
Keywords: Symbolist novel; simulation; dissimulation; pseudonym; literary genres
Published: December 11, 2017 Show citation
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