Octave Mirbeau et les clivages du moi
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2005
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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Octave Mirbeau's rifts
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Mirbeau's inner world, with its hidden treasures, its disorder, its constructive incoherence, creates a literature in its own
image, violent, disparate and generous. His entire work is part of his contemporary Viennese master's one. Subconscious
deliberate mistakes, sublimations, perversions, original scenes, neuroses... Everything leads the reader to integrate the
biographical element into the very act of creation.
The regressive attitude of his earlier novels which translates into a desire for fusion with Nature turns in the 1890s into a will
of self-construction eventually opening onto a confident vitality and an enthusiastic belief in modernity.
But this decadent literature, no more than a naturalistic one, should not be reduced to a psychoanalytic analysis. Should they
exist, these elements are subjected to a literary transmutation which urges the reader to conceive his own personal myth
rather than sense a neurotic divide. Torn between an intellectual demand and a spiritual expectation, it seems nonetheless that
Nature, the element of inspiration for the author, lets us feel a prospective deep division.
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2005, vol. 32, pp. 123-142.
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978-83-232-2145-6
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0137-2475