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- Title
«Du piètre rendu précieux»: le sexuel à l’aune d’une poétique de l’antagonique dans “Fou de Vincent” d’Hervé Guibert.
- Authors
LAHOUSTE, CORENTIN
- Abstract
We will analyze how Hervé Guibert’s Fou de Vincent (1989) develops a “poetic of the antagonistic”, in which the syntagm «du piètre rendu précieux» [«of the trivial made precious»] acts as a keystone. The focus will be brought on Guibert’s propension to sublimate the foul and the vile by combining the appalling with the luminous, the trivial with the apotheotic. What is more, we will show how, by means of an exaltation and glorification of Vincent’s figural instance, overerdetermined by the phallus, the author draws a substantial link between the sexual and the sacred.
- Subjects
FOU de Vincent (Book); GUIBERT, Herve, 1955-1991; GLORY of God; HUMAN sexuality in religion; HUMAN sexuality in literature
- Publication
Studi Francesi, 2017, Issue 183, p475
- ISSN
0039-2944
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.4000/studifrancesi.10117