Pierre Loti and André Malraux
irony and tragedy of French writers in Asia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2023..38-49Keywords:
Pierre Loti, André Malraux, irony, tragedy, image of the OtherAbstract
The essay analyses, in the novels Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti and La Condition humaine (1933) by André Malraux, the strategies of representation and comprehension of cultural Alterity from these French writers, and their effects on the register of the text. In particular, the ironic mode will be distinguished from the tragic mode. In this sense, the difference between the auto-diegetic statute of Lotian narrator, and the polyphony of characters who animate Malraux’s novel has also been underlined.
References
Bakhtine, M. (1984). Esthétique de la création verbale (1979). Gallimard.
Barthes, R. (1968). L’effet de réel. Communications, 11, 84–89.
Barthes, R. (2003). La préparation du roman. Seuil.
Brel, J. (2018). Les bourgeois (1962). In Jacques Brel chanteur. L’intégrale de ses chansons (pp. 166–167). Fondation Brel.
Brincourt, A. (2004). La lumière qui démasque. In M. Temman, Le Japon d’André Malraux (Kindle version). Picquier.
Ceserani, R. (1996). Il fantastico. Il Mulino.
Claudel, P. (1965). Un regard sur l’âme japonaise (1923). In Œuvres en prose (pp. 1118–1132). Gallimard.
Eco, U. (1979). Lector in fabula. Bompiani.
Endo, F. (2013). La vision d’un Japon saugrenu chez Pierre Loti. In Les mondes d’un écrivain-voyageur : Pierre Loti (1850-1923) (Revue des Sciences humaines, pp. 39–49). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/search?q=https://fukuoka-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Freyermuth, S. (2010). Anticipation, polyphonie et théorie de l’esprit. In Hommage à Maguy Albet. De la critique littéraire au roman (pp. 61–94). L’Harmattan. Retrieved from https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/936/1/Polyphonie_th
Genette, G. (1972). Figures III. Seuil.
Gentili, C., & Garelli, G. (2010). Il tragico. Il Mulino.
Goodman, N. (1984). On mind and others matters. Harvard UP.
Greenblatt, S. (1991). Marvelous possessions. The wonder of the New World. Clarendon.
Hartman, E. (1981). Japonisme and Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Comparative Literature Studies, 18(2), 141–166.
Hokenson, J. (2004). Japan, France, and East-West Aesthetics: French literature, 1867-2000. Fairleigh Dickinson UP.
Jankélévitch, V. (1964). L’ironie. Flammarion.
Loti, P. (1926). Madame Chrysanthème (1887). Calmann-Lévy.
Malraux, A. (1946). La condition humaine (1933). Gallimard.
Mann, T. (1954). Prefazione [Preface]. In P. Malvezzi & G. Pirelli (Eds.), Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza europea (pp. XVII–XXIII). Einaudi.
Merello, I. (2005). Eric Fougère, Les paravents de Mme Chrysanthème ou l’impossible Loti. Studi Francesi, XLIX(147), 670.
Moatti, C. (1987). Le prédicateur et ses masques : les personnages d’André Malraux. Sorbonne.
Moretti, F. (2013). The bourgeois. Between history and literature. Verso.
Panaro, F. (2015). Contro la cultura. Esseri e universi ben invisibili. Mimesis.
Scotti, F. (2014). Kiku-san ovvero l’esercizio dello sguardo. In P. Loti, Kiku-san (pp. 5–9). O barra O.
Siti, W. (2021). Contro l’impegno. Riflessioni sul bene in letteratura. Rizzoli.
Somma, A. L. (2016). Una perfetta giapponese: la costruzione japonisant del Giappone e della musmè ne “La veste di crespo” di Matilde Serao. Lingue culture mediazioni, 3(2), 135–153.
Temman, M. (2004). Le Japon d’André Malraux (Kindle version). Picquier.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. CC BY-NC includes the following elements:
BY: credit must be given to the creator.
NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
