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From a love and body language in Le Rouge and Noir

Abstract

TROPICS decided to dedicate a Hors-Serial to a few authors to the programme for the aggregation of modern Letters. This volume is the digital version of the communications made during the aggregation day of 30 November 2013 (Saint-Denis de La Réunion, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, DIRE). The articles were brought together by Françoise Sylvos. National audience from 1789 to 1830, political events led men to question their report on history. It is no longer an abstract object but a reality that lives at the same time as it is built. These upheavals lead, among other things, to a challenge to the body. Changes in laws, biology and philosophy offer the body a new representation in literature. Not that the body is freely exposed. “The body does not say itself, does not show itself, either in fact or in the texts. At best, if it is not silent, it is said by the inconclusive means of metaphor.” But then why talk about the body? The latter becomes an ideological challenge and expresses man’s relationship with his history and the society around him. In the 18th century, the body was considered to be subject to the will of its possessor. Historical upheavals change this dominant position of man on his own body. From now on, he feels closed and civilisation itself becomes a prison. François Kerlouégan noted that the ‘corpsbrimés, governed by social and historical law, called for the release of the body, i.e. an adaptation of the law to the desire of society to nature’. There is a permanent tension in Le Rouge and the Noir between the behaviour that society would like Julien Sorel to adopt and the more disturbing behaviour he cannot conceal. Finally, by proclaiming the freedom of his body, Julien Sorel took over (all relative) power over her destiny. The body ‘embodies the desire to subvert the codes (political and aesthetic) that animate the romantic artist’. It is through the link between history and body — both physical and textual — that I propose that you study Le Rouge and the Noir.

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