L’Homme-toupie. Le vagabond comme figure de la subversion dans Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile Zola
Journal Title: Quêtes littéraires - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
"Spinning-top man. Vagabond as a personification of social order’s subversion in Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zola" ABSTRACT: A vagrant Florent Quenu serves as a methaphor of social-political shift that strikes France in the late XIX-th century. Intimidated by the magnitude of change, upon his return Florent wanders the streets, meanders and strolls in circles which casts a horrendous contradiction with the austerity of Hausmann’s new Paris, aligned with omnipresent straight line forms. This geometrical collision of a straight line and a curve is symptomatic of ferocious conflict between the Second Empire and the alternative social model embodied in the Florent’s attitude.
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Jolanta Rachwalska von Rejchwald
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