French literature, Abbé Prévost, Voltaire, Molière, poetic alchemy, femme fatale, tragic heroine, 17th century, 21st century, comedy, medicine, hypocrisy, spleen
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Analysis of French literature from 17th to 21st century, covering works and themes.
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[...] ->??femme fatale (venomous), victim (tragic heroine) powerless ??->several interpretations. Poetry from the 19th century to the 21st century: Poetic Alchemy: Mud and Gold « And the sky looked at the magnificent corpse/As a flower blooming « The saddest of alchemists/By you I change gold into iron/And paradise into hell THE WOMAN: "Her spiritual flesh has the scent of Angels" XLII(42) Accord of redemption: 'reversibility'/leads to ecstasy 'The Hair' / impure, sin 'The Destruction'. THE SPLEEN: 'Spleen', 'Alchemy of pain': artistic impotence. 'By you I change gold into iron' / 'Boredom, fruit of dull incuriosity, Takes on the proportions of immortality' 'Spleen LXXVI' THE CITY: 'Parisian Tables', 1861/ The deafening street around me was screaming POETIC ALCHEMY: Carrion'/ 'You gave me your mud and I made gold out of it' 'epilogue, 1861' FIGURATION OF THE POET: 'Albatross'/ 'The Toad' (T.Corbière) Ugliness, disgust: A Carrion/Sexuality, homosexuality: Lesbos/Artificial paradises: Wine and Opium: Wine Literature of Ideas from the 16th to the 18th century: laughter and knowledge HOW TO READ THE NOVEL? [...]
[...] Ah How much are the two tickets? ' 7. Roman, narrative of the Middle Ages to the 21st century: Pleasures of the romance, characters on the margins « Never had a girl less attachment to money than she, and she could not, however, be tranquil for a moment with the fear of lacking it ' (Des Grieux) « Love and youth had caused all my disorders ' (Part DG) « My dear Chevalier, [ . ] you are the idol of my heart, and there is only you in the world that I can love in the way that I love you. [...]
[...] Important Citations to Know - French Baccalaureate Theatre from the 17th century to the 21st century: Spectacle and Comedy (Medicine) « ARGAN: It's not my fault. M. PURGON: Since you have disobeyed the obedience that one must give to one's doctor. ' III, 5. «TOINETTE: they have in you a good milk cow « BÉRALDE: [ . ] one can see that you are not used to speaking to faces. « TOINETTE: He walks, sleeps, eats, and drinks just like the others; but that doesn't stop him from being very ill. [...]
[...] « BÉRALDE: It is not the doctors that he [Molière] plays, but the ridiculousness of medicine. ' III,3 « BÉRALDE: All you have to do is talk with a dress and a cap, and any nonsense becomes learned, and any foolishness becomes reason. ' III, 14. (Amour) «ANGÉLIQUE: Marriage is a chain where one must never submit a heart by force. ' II,6 « ANGÉLIQUE: Alas I weep for all that in life I could lose most dear and most precious: I weep for the death of my father. ' III, 14. [...]
