Écho des études romanes, 2017 (vol. 13), issue 2

IntroductionFrench

Veronika ČERNÍKOVÁ, Kateřina DRSKOVÁ, Ivana OVISZACH, Josef PROKOP

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):9-10 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.013  

Mentir vrai ? La Septième fonction du langage de Laurent BinetFrench

Lie true? La Septième fonction du langage by Laurent Binet

Petr KYLOUŠEK

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):11-19 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.014  

Laurent Binet's novel is a game of simulation and dissimulation by its very intrigue. Who killed Roland Barthes and why? The police investigation conducted by the commissioner Jacques Bayard and the semiologist Simon Herzog is gradually transformed into questions about the relationship between fiction and reality and the nature of language. Is it knowledge or a misunderstanding? What is its noetic, ethical and political scope? What powers does it confer? The historical events of 1980 and the references to important personalities in political and scholarly life form a realistic screen that fiction manipulates, according to narrative strategies impacted...

L’auteur est mort, vivent les personnages ! La notion de liberté à travers les jeux narratifs de la simulation et de la dissimulation
dans La Septième fonction du langage de Laurent BinetFrench

The author is dead, live the characters! The conception of freedom through plays of simulation and dissimuation
in La Septième fonction du langage by Laurent Binet

Petr VURM

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):21-30 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.015  

The paper deals with the simulation and dissimulation of reality, as well as the consequences of the death of the author suggested by Roland Barthes, in the novel La Septième fonction du langage by Laurent Binet. The novel itself doesn't fit any precise subgeneric category, standing on the border between a detective and/or spy novel, a semiological quest and a parody of the intelligentsia of the French theory. Through our analyses, we purport to demonstrate that the author/narrator can (dis)simulate a liberation of the main character from his own "tutelage". The theory of simulated reality is also approached towards the end of the paper.

La simulation de l’acte d’énonciation : le cas de Laurent BinetFrench

The simulation of the utterance act: the case of Laurent Binet

Veronika ČERNÍKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):31-41 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.016  

The paper presents a reflection on John Searle's theory according to whom the fiction pretends illocutionary acts whereas the utterance act remains real. Yet we suppose that the meta-novels pretend also the utterance act which no longer represents the only truthful act of fiction but rather a literary convention. To confirm our hypothesis, we chose to analyse HHhH by Laurent Binet, a contemporary French author. His novel lends itself well to the analysis because the author plays with the reliability of the narrator which is not as credible as it may seem; with the reader who remains abandoned in the maze built from the pieces of reality and...

Simulation et dissimulation chez l’héroïne-narratrice de la Vie de Marianne de MarivauxFrench

Simulation and dissimulation in the heroine-narrator of Marivaux's Life of Marianne

Jacques GUILHEMBET

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):43-54 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.017  

This paper analyzes the forms and effects of simulation and dissimulation in Marivaux's novel The Life of Marianne, or the Adventures of the Countess of *** (La Vie de Marianne, 1731-42). In the diegesis, young Marianne is a dissembler inclined to playacting on the world stage. She often acts coquettishly, easily manipulates some of her interlocutors, and gives in to romantic storytelling when fantasizing about her origins. In keeping with such a trend, the autodiegetic narrator also resorts to dissimulation and duplicity. She tells readers a partial tale of her youth, which is both biased and incomplete. Some events in her past are concealed,...

Simulación del yo y monólogo interior. El relato de SalinasSpanish

Simulation of the self and inner monologue. A short story by Salinas

Jerusalem GAGO

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):55-65 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.018  

In contemporary storytelling, the narrative procedures evolve in their eagerness to penetrate the interior of consciousness and to develop techniques of simulation of the self as the inner monologue. When the narrated is situated on a plane other than space-time, and is built at the proper coordinates located in the inner zone of intimacy, we are faced with a reality governed by inner laws and marked by the time of mental processes. The writer tries to install us inside the mind of the character and refer to the reality directly internalized in the character. The term "stream of consciousness" refers to a type of narrative where the incessant passage...

Simulatio et Dissimulatio. Le jeu des émotions dans la littérature française médiévaleFrench

Simulatio et Dissimulatio. The game of emotions in medieval French literature

Camille CARNAILLE

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):67-79 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.019  

This paper deals with the role played by emotions in medieval French literature, especially in this context of simulation or dissimulation. Integrated in the social and courteous norms which rule the society depicted in literature, the emotions need to be controlled and measured, often dissimulated. But this attention paid to the emotions also invites consideration of the larger possibilities of manipulation, and leads to a whole universe of game playing around the emotional expression.

Mallarmé et la musique dissimuléeFrench

Mallarmé and the hidden music

Anna OPIELA-MROZIK

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):81-92 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.020  

Starting from the concept of poetry which, according to Mallarmé, is to deprive music of what it has unjustly appropriated, this article deals with the issue of the "aesthetics of dissimulation". These aesthetics define the musicality in Mallarmé's works with regard to both musical topics and the transfer of musical techniques to literature. Dissimulation seems to be a characteristic feature of music itself (the spiritual art which is the reflection of the Idea - spatial and temporal as well) and an artistic tool used by the poet to achieve the ideal of poetry. The concealed music - music of silence made by the intellectual word - pretends to be the...

Marcel Schwob et la simulation/dissimulation identitaire à travers les recueils Cœur double et Le Roi au masque d’orFrench

Marcel Schwob and the simulation/dissimulation of identity through the collections Cœur double (Double Heart) and Le Roi au masque d'or (The King in the Golden Mask)

Kévin FRANÇOIS

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):93-100 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.021  

Simulation and dissimulation are two important writing concepts. Thanks to them, authors can bring their readers into their universe and to their concept of the world. Marcel Schwob in two of his collections of short novels, Coeur double and Le Roi au masque d'or, uses simulation and dissimulation to deepen his own vision of identity and to bring his reader to a similar consciousness: through the depictured stories, he aims to make them feel the presence of others and how close they are.

La simulation et la dissimulation selon Dickner : Nikolski et Six degrés de libertéFrench

Simulation and dissimutation according to Dickner: Nikolski and Six degrés de liberté

Květuše KUNEŠOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):101-113 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.022  

The article deals with notions of simulation and dissimulation and their thematic roles in two novels by Nicolas Dickner, a contemporary Quebec writer. The novels Nikolski and Six degrees of freedom are connected by the figure of a young woman who represents dissimulation par excellence in both plots. Not only the characters of Dickner's novels know how to hide their true thoughts, there are also other objects dissimulating their real function and masking humans: an odd Three-headed book, a weird compass and especially, an old commercial container used as a kind of secret means of transport.

Les « éclats du monde » dans la figure du narrateur et la « parole de liberté » dans Veilles et Merveilles créoles. Contes du pays Martinique de Patrick ChamoiseauFrench

The "bursts of the world" in the face of the narrator and the "tongue of freedom" in Veilles et Merveilles créoles. Contes du pays Martinique by Patrick Chamoiseau

Milena FUČÍKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):115-122 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.023  

The paper deals with a specific interpretation of literary narrative in Chamoiseau's Veilles et Merveilles créoles. We focus on the analysis of lyrical forms in narrative texts, in particular, on how the personification of the narrator introduces an autonomous representation of the author and, more importantly, the personification of a discourse which seeks to explore images of movement as a metaphor for reflection on his narrative. Patrick Chamoiseau's images of metamorphosis represent the basis for his own poetics.

Des secrets sous les décombres : la (dis)simulation dans le roman post-sismique haïtienFrench

Secrets under the ruins: (dis)simulation in the Haitian post-seismic novel

Alessia VIGNOLI

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):123-131 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.024  

In January 2010 a major earthquake strikes Haiti, especially its capital Port-au-Prince, and its consequences are still shaping Haitian life, politics and culture. The works of fiction published in the aftermath, from 2010 until today, are a vivid example of the intrusion of catastrophic events into literary production. The aim of this paper is to investigate the dynamics between simulation and dissimulation in two novels published after the earthquake: Aux frontières de la soif (2012) by Kettly Mars and L'escalier de mes désillusions (2014) by Gary Victor. In Mars's novel the main character keeps a horrible secret and makes many...

La (dis)simulation des langues d’origine africaineFrench

The (dis)simulation of African languages

Vojtěch ŠARŠE

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):315-323 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.040  

African literatures written in French language translated, especially in their beginnings, the existential suffering caused by the colonial history, by the influence of French culture and by the predominance of the French language in their societies. It is, however, with the help of this European language, the language of the colonizer, that African writers from the French colonies "hide" or dissimulate their mother tongue. Their main characters or narrators of their stories, speaking in their fictional world an African language, are described in novels in French. This use of the foreign language predetermines all the African literatures of the colonies...

Dissimulation au service de la Providence dans Esther de Jean RacineFrench

Dissimulation in the service of the providence in Esther by Jean Racine

Záviš ŠUMAN

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):325-336 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.041  

The article deals with persuasion in Racine's biblical tragedy Esther. It provides especially an analysis of rhetorical proofs as they are used in Esther's final récit (III, 4). We aim to demonstrate that the rational argumentation has a key role in this religious play. Despite the fact that many of the scenes might be understood in reference to biblical verisimilitude or to the concept of « merveilleux chrétien » and even if the visual appearence of Esther has a particularly strong impact upon Assuérus' action, the Racinian use of rhetoric reinforces the theatricality of the play.

Le roman québécois et ses adaptations : écart de l’original et dissimulation idéologiqueFrench

The Quebec novel and its adaptations: distance from the original and ideological dissimulation

Katarzyna WÓJCIK

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):337-349 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.042  

Film adaptation of the novel illustrate different relations of the film to the source text: the complete fidelity, transformations consequent on the passage from literature to film, modifications of the text's signification on the esthetic and ideological level. Quebec literature and cinema are sensible to the non-artistic discourses present in the Quebec society. For these reason film adaptation of Quebec novel can be considered as an example of "ideological dissimulation" according to the political and social context contemporary to the realization of the movie. The adaptation can either extenuate the novel's ideological signification or use a canonical...

Le maschere del potere, da Machiavelli a PasoliniItalian

Masks of power, from Machiavelli to Pasolini

Sonia TROVATO

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):351-363 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.043  

By analysing Niccolò Macchiavelli's and Ferrante Pallavicino's work, this article investigates the evolution of a simulation and dissimulation culture linked to the character of the Prince, paying particular attention to the signs inscribed over bodies by government activity. A further, short evaluation of Pasolini's later work, and especially of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, enables a reflection about the contemporary representations of political power and of its hiding strategies.

Foscolo tra le maschere: Simulazione e dissimulazione come strumenti di riflessione sull’identità nell’opera di Ugo FoscoloItalian

Foscolo among the masks: simulation and dissimulation as tools of reflection on identity in Ugo Foscolo's work

Angela Alexandra D’ORSO

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):133-145 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.025  

The article deals with Foscolo's contribution to autobiographic writing. The study focuses on methods that the author uses, having a particular attention for the foscolanian masks and their functions. The analysis of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, Sesto Tomo dell' io and Notizia intorno a Didimo Chierico makes us declare that Foscolo continued, throughout his literary career, a reflection on the concept of identity which had the practice of simulation in the instrument of knowledge.

La Vita operosa di Massimo Bontempelli fra narrativa, autobiografia e «autofiction»Italian

Massimo Bontempelli's La Vita operosa between fiction, autobiography and "autofiction"

Cinzia GALLO

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):147-159 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.026  

From the earliest pages, Massimo Bontempelli's La Vita operosa (1921) seems to mix the characters of an autobiography, a narrative text and, it could be said, of an autofiction. The first is certainly the re-enactment by the narrator of some facts of his own existence, the reminder attributed to the memories, the autobiographical pact, justified by the subtitle (Avventure del '19 a Milano), established with the readers, often called in question. Various situations and characters, however, are clearly unlikely: the Daimon with whom he maintains constant dialogue, the golden "waterfalls" pouring into the streets, the magical mirror with which...

Simulation et dissimulation dans les récits autobiographiques des membres hongrois de la Résistance françaiseFrench

Simulation and dissimulation in the autobiographical accounts of Hungarian members of the French Resistance

Krisztián BENE

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):161-168 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.027  

During the Word War II, the Internal and External Resistance have gathered the people who wanted to continue the fight against the Axis powers in France and on the other theaters of operations around the world. Beside of the French citizens a number of foreigners were in the ranks of these organizations. Among these there were a couple of thousand Hungarians who have fought for the liberty of France. The detailed analysis of these volunteers allows to better knowing their number and activity which were unknown until now. The discovery of the written works of these fighters made after the war contributes to the better knowledge of their history. At...

Mèt kontè se manti ! Maître conteur, tu mens ou tu (te) trompes ! Le passage de la simulation narrative à la confession autobiographique dans le conte haïtien en diasporaFrench

Mèt kontè se manti! Master storyteller, you lie or you're wrong! The transition from narrative simulation to autobiographical confession in Haitian storytelling in the diaspora

Sara DEL ROSSI

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):169-181 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.028  

The aim of this paper is to analyse the permeable boundaries between the author and the narrator in the rewritings of Haitian traditional oral tales, in the context of the present-day Diaspora. We will focus in particular on two storytellers, Joujou Turenne (Québec) and Mimi Barthélémy (France), to investigate the passage from the oral to the written form of a tale, a passage that disrupts the tale's narration as far as the traditional forms of opening and closing, the ultimate site of the narrator's simulation, are concerned. Our analysis will be based on a comparative study of the two storytellers' texts, by way of the specific case of the Haitian...

Mystification ou historiographie au XVI^e siècle dans les Vies des plus célèbres et anciens poètes provensaux de Jehan de NostredameFrench

Mystification or historiographie in the 16^th century in the Vies des plus celebres et anciens poetes provensaux of Jehan de Nostredame

Josef PROKOP

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):183-194 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.029  

Jehan de Nostredame, the author of the modern version of the medieval troubadours' biographies (published 1575) ly declares the majority of them as "Provensaux", deliberately changing the places of their origin, their names or other particularities. He also includes biographies of troubadours which are totally invented in the book, some of them bearing names or characteristics of persons from the administrative and aristocratic elite of 16th century Provence and Italy. Is this procedure of Nostredame's an ingenious literary game with the reader's trust, or is Jehan de Nostredame simply an immoral liar? Or does this particularity of Nostredame's text...

Les masques fin-de-siècle. Poétiques de la simulaton et de la dissimulation dans le roman symbolisteFrench

The Masks of the fin-de-siècle. Poetics of simulation and dissimulation in symbolist novel

Eva VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):195-203 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.030  

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...

« Je est un autre ». Le pastiche et la parodie chez Pierre LouÿsFrench

"I is another". Pierre Louÿs' pastiche and parody

Vendula ŠTÁFOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):205-213 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.031  

The paper deals with the work of the French poet and writer, dandy and libertine, Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) who devoted his entire life to erotic and pornographic writings. Throughout his life, Louÿs took a particular and very intense pleasure in pastiching or parodying the classical texts of French literature. Therefore, a number of stylistic exercises imitating the writing style of many great French writers emerged in Louÿs' work. Besides, one of his favourite activities was to sign his own pornographic poems with the names of his literary colleagues. It should be noted that even Louÿs' own literal work represents a kind of pastiche....

Les identités simulées et dissimulées d’Opal Whiteley. Les tropes français dans La Rivière au bord de l’eau. Journal d’une enfant d’ailleursFrench

Opal Whiteley's simulated and dissimulated identities. French tropes in La Rivière au bord de l'eau. Journal d’une enfant d’ailleurs

Damian MASŁOWSKI

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):215-225 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.032  

In 2006, by dint of the release of the French translation of The Story Of Opal: The Journal Of An Understanding Heart (La Rivière au bord de l'eau. Journal d'une enfant d'ailleurs), Opal Whiteley was introduced to French readers. Born in 1897 in Colton, in Washington, Oregon, she chose a particular avenue of escapism, the invention of a new personality: the lost daughter of Prince Henri of Orléans (1867-1901). This kind of dissimulation of identity means the rejection of her family of lumberjacks together with their unremarkable entourage. Such an attitude stems from her childish imagination as well as from various dissociative disorders.

Entre pseudonymat et anonymat dans l’œuvre de Charles Sorel : pratique et pensée de la dissimulationFrench

Between pseudonymity and anonymity in the work of Charles Sorel: the practice and thought of dissimulation

Amadou Woury BALDE

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):227-237 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.033  

Among the immense number of books written by Charles Sorel, only some of them have an author's name or the author's real name. Actually, most of his books are anonymously published or under pseudonyms. Sorel even signs some of his books with only his surname and sometimes states his historiographer mission of France. Prolific author, novelist, historian, philosopher and literary critic, Sorel systematically opposes his books and the classes into two categories: entertaining and serious books. This work aims at studying Charles Sorel's dissimulation practice. In his books he even wonders about this practice and gives a reflection that allows us, partly,...

Disimulo pícaroSpanish

Dissimulation of a rogue

Juan A. SÁNCHEZ FERNÁNDEZ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):239-249 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.034  

It seems that the Rogue (pícaro) is, in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, a master of dissimulation, and in some way it is so. He tries to hide his real origin and social status, he puts on a mask in front of others, he lives as a beggar, he never tells the truth. We show some examples of this dissimulation in the literary and social context of the period. Although if we study in depth the real sense of picaresque (and similar) literature, we can find that the rogue is not a literary strategy of dissimulation, but, on the contrary, a pedagogical means to show the truth.

Tra menzogna e verità. Le figure dei mentitori e il processo del loro smascheramento nel romanzo Dodici più un angelo di Ingrid Beatrice ComanItalian

Between lie and truth.The figures of the liars and the process of their unmasking in the novel Dodici più un angelo by Ingrid Beatrice Coman

Karol KARP

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):251-261 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.035  

The article is an analysis of Dodici più un angelo by Ingrid Beatrice Coman, an author of Romanian origin whose works represent Italian migrant literature. The main aim is to demonstrate the phenomenon of lying and the figures of liars. Not counting the introduction and conclusion, the article consists of four parts: one theoretical and three analytical. In the theoretical section, in which there are references to the assumptions by Ekman, Aristotle, Cavaillé, Montaigne, and Rousseau, the concepts and methodological considerations, later applied, are presented. Each analytical section addresses a different figure of a liar, description...

Las máscaras de Roberto BolañoSpanish

Roberto Bolaño's masks

Tereza KRÁTKÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):263-272 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.036  

The paper deals with the narrative strategy using the principle of the confusion within the fields of fiction and reality in Bolaño's second novel Monsieur Pain. The novel Monsieur Pain seems to be a kind of biography or even autobiography; however, Bolaño presents just a well narrated fiction here; i.e. he uses the narrative methods of simulation. Using the possibilities of comparative literature, the text demonstrates that Bolaño's fiction proceeds from other texts, especially biographical ones, or well-known experiences of real people. The article also refers to the literary tradition which confuses fiction with texts that seem to...

I paradossi di un mentitore. Giacomo Casanova tra verità e simulazioneItalian

The paradoxes of a liar. Giacomo Casanova between truth and simulation

Diego VARINI

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):273-285 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.037  

This paper tries to outline the multiple plans and significances of simulation/dissimulation in Giacomo Casanova's Histoire de ma vie. Focusing on themes such as time perception and representation, the dialectic of dream and reality, the self-consciousness of the lying author and its earnest attitude and Casanova's political judgments, the "content of reality" and the revealing value of this bizarre autobiography emerge, even if concealed under the richness of implausible or plainly accounts. Playing with elegance and irony the multiple instruments of the interplay between true and , Casanova's autobiography stands as a forceful example of an...

Simulacres et effet de réel dans un roman de Claude SimonFrench

Simulacra and the effect of reality in a novel by Claude Simon

Gilles GUIGUES

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):287-299 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.038  

By fragmenting the linearity of narration and by the permanent addition of many details, Claude Simon's duplicity with the truth of the story is used for bringing alive the meaning all around several possibilities. From time to time, in the narration, the punctilious flux of the description is stopped; then, by a kind of turning back on itself, the description tries to correct its expression to show the complex nature of things in a reality effect. In this way, such a writing of the sensation develops a world and, simultaneously, pretends to discover it in the course of the text being built.

Il libro fittizio: storia e funzioni di un espediente letterarioItalian

Fictional books: history and functions of a literary device

Daniel RAFFINI

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):301-313 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.039  

The article deals with the topos of fictional books that only exist inside others books. Firstly, a theoretical study about fictional books is presented, such as the ones by Max Beerbohm and by Lyon Sprague de Camp. Then, we focus on the function of fictional books in some authors from the early modern to the contemporary age. The first two trends are the satirical one, from François Rabelais' Pantagruel, and the invention of the sources in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote. During the twentieth century, fictional books acquire more and more functions. We will analyze the cases of Jorge Luis Borges, who uses the fictional book in order...

José Rentes de Carvalho : O MeçasPortuguese

Carlos NOGUEIRA

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):365-367  

Review of the novel by José Rentes de Carvalho : O Meças (Lisboa, Quetzal, 2016).

Sophie Pointurier : Théories et pratiques de l’interprétation de service publicFrench

Ivana ČEŇKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):367-369  

Review of the monograph by Sophie Pointurier, Théories et pratiques de l’interprétation de service public (Paris, Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2016).

Adriána Koželová : Preklad kultúrnych referencií z antiky a kultúrna kompetencia prekladateľaFrench

Kateřina DRSKOVÁ

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):369-370  

Review of the monograph by Adriána Koželová, Preklad kultúrnych referencií z antiky a kultúrna kompetencia prekladateľa (Prešov, Prešovská univerzita, 2017).

ActualitésFrench

Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):371-377