Kuchenne schody Emila Zoli. Historia obyczajowości po wielkich przewrotach
Journal Title: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The very text, the formal basis of which constitutes the analysis of Kuchenne schody, the tenth volume of a big novel cycle by Rougon‑Macquart constitutes an attempt to multiply Emil Zola and present one more dimension of the very author and his work; no longer denied dignity and faith of spoil painter and naturalist eliminated by theoreticians, but a piercing diagnostician in a generation contemporary to him deciphering correctly reflections of decadence. This time, decadence is not marked aristocracy, as one may presume, but middle class and bourgeois in the most bourgeois version. In Zola’s works former heroes of resolution suddenly transform into immoralists avid for the consumption in whom a feverish pursuit of pleasures is merely a form of concealing satiety and spiritual exhaustion of characters. Le texte dont la base formelle est une analyse du Pot-Bouille, le dixième volume du fameux cycle romanesque Les Rougons-Macquart, est une tentative de présenter Emile Zola et son oeuvre dans une lumière nouvelle : non comme un peintre de la dépravation, déclaré infâme, non comme naturaliste attaqué par les théoriciens mais un diagnosticien perspicace, qui déchiffre sans fautes les facettes de la décadence. Cette fois ce n’est pas l’aristocratie qui est marquée par la décadence mais la classe moyenne, la bourgeoisie dans sa version la plus exemplaire, sous la plume de Zola, des anciens héros de la Révolution se transforment violemment en des immoralistes avides de la jouissance, dont la quête furtive des joies est uniquement une forme de camoufler le dégoût et la lassitude spirituelle des personnages.
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Agnieszka Rozpłochowska‑Boniatowska
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