Les Sincères de Marivaux : un « Misanthrope alambiqué et restreint » ?
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| Title: | Les Sincères de Marivaux : un « Misanthrope alambiqué et restreint » ? |
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| Authors: | Nicolas Fréry |
| Source: | Etudes Epistémè, Vol 47 (2025) |
| Publisher Information: | Institut du Monde Anglophone, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | LCC:History (General) and history of Europe LCC:French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature |
| Subject Terms: | portraits, Molière, rewriting, self-love, Marivaux, misanthropy, History (General) and history of Europe, French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature, PQ1-3999 |
| Description: | In the work of a playwright who paid no tribute to Molière, a play like Les Sincères (1739) would appear to be an exception. In Proust's words, Marivaux's brief comedy is a “convoluted and narrow Misanthrope”. By analysing the comic deviations from the ideal of sincerity, and by displacing certain famous scenes from Le Misanthrope – in particular the “scène des portraits” – Marivaux offers a subtle re-reading of Molière's masterpiece, reinterpreting its dramatic and moral stakes. It seems that this play, in which Marivaux follows in the footsteps of his precursor, allows us to observe, more than ever, the singularity of Marivaux's aesthetic. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English French |
| ISSN: | 1634-0450 |
| Relation: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/21501; https://doaj.org/toc/1634-0450 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/1515z |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/f5d1d9f13cf04ac780dab948fce1e214 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.f5d1d9f13cf04ac780dab948fce1e214 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | In the work of a playwright who paid no tribute to Molière, a play like Les Sincères (1739) would appear to be an exception. In Proust's words, Marivaux's brief comedy is a “convoluted and narrow Misanthrope”. By analysing the comic deviations from the ideal of sincerity, and by displacing certain famous scenes from Le Misanthrope – in particular the “scène des portraits” – Marivaux offers a subtle re-reading of Molière's masterpiece, reinterpreting its dramatic and moral stakes. It seems that this play, in which Marivaux follows in the footsteps of his precursor, allows us to observe, more than ever, the singularity of Marivaux's aesthetic. |
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| ISSN: | 16340450 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/1515z |