Claude Villaret, témoin et acteur de l'évolution du roman libertin au XVIIIe siècle / Zhang Qianru ; préface de Patrick Wald Lasowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Qianru, author.

Series:

Collection "Détours littéraires"

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Villaret, Claude, approximately 1715-1766--Criticism and interpretation.

Villaret, Claude.

Libertinism in literature.

Erotic stories, French--18th century--History and criticism.

Erotic stories, French.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

364 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Éditions Kimé, [2018]

Summary:

From 1736 to 1738, Crebillon Jr. composed Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit . In 1740, Gervaise de Latouche publishes Le portier of the Chartreux. Today we consider them both libertine novels, not without some embarrassment. Admittedly, studies devoted decades ago to the libertine novel have allowed contemporary researchers to expand and specify the definition of gender, so that finding the two novels is no longer a problem; however, their divergence at the bottom and at the level of the form seems unquestionably enormous. Indeed, the libertine novel evolves constantly in the eighteenth century. Two currents, each of which represents worldly libertinage and licentious licentiousness, are formed and coexist. From the end of the 1740s, more and more licentious libertine novels were born. If there is a big difference between Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit and Le portier des Chartreux is because they belong to two different currents. One wonders then why this division takes place within the libertine novel? Why does the number of libertine novels increase gradually? Chronologically the 1740s constitute a period of very marked evolution of the libertine novel. And the fictional creation of Villaret develops precisely in this period. As a witness to this moment of transition, Villaret erases a little, in his four novels, the demarcation between these two currents. Thus, through the study of the novels of Villaret, we will better understand this momentous moment in the evolution of the libertine novel, the reasons, the forms and the stake of this evolution. From here, we will also see that multiple links are woven between the two seemingly divergent currents, Doorman of Carthusians believed.--Translation of page 4 of Editions Kime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-359).

ISBN:

9782841749003

2841749002

OCLC:

1057788199