Article
French
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DOI: <
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Abstract
In this tale, the symbolic of the past and present Venice is analogically related, by a complex network of signs, to the flat where the hero-narrator lives in a quasi ruined palace: which finally products for him an astonishing dramatic coincidence between past and present. What could have been written in a fantastic mode only, or as a sort of psychiatric whodunnit, finally appears as an experience of the marvellous; but this only after the reader having been obliged to hesitate about the best interpretative framework to apply. The enigmatic game of the plot’s circumstances helps the author to observe wat he calls “the mysterious correspondence” that symbolist school discovers between the phénomenons. Thus, the magic memory of the venitian eighteenth Century will haunt the soul of an antihero fortunately open by his illness to all the marvellous tricks arranged by Chance and Destiny.