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- Title
L'oeuvre du marquis de Sade et le conte.
- Authors
Schorderet, Alain
- Abstract
This article discusses the different functions assumed by folktale elements in the works of the marquis de Sade. It shows how the intertextual relationship to Perrault's tales is to be intended, especially in Rodrigue ou la tour enchantée, a short allegorical tale drawn from the 1800 collection Les Crimes de l'amour. Bluebeard's forbidden chamber as it appears in Sade's text represents the criminal past with a difference : entering it causes no bad conscience and implies no regrets. In his interpretation, Sade implicitly presents the Bluebeard tale as a fable of unhappy return of the past and unsuccessful repression of conscience, a paradigm to be repressed in the same way as Sade's works intend to repress the world of the folktale in general.
- Subjects
RODRIGUE ou La Tour enchantee (Short story); SADE, marquis de, 1740-1814; PERRAULT, Charles, 1628-1703; BLUEBEARD (Legendary character); LEGENDS in literature; RIDICULE in literature; PARODY in literature; HISTORICAL errors; ALLEGORY; THEMES in literature
- Publication
Fabula, 2013, Vol 54, Issue 1/2, p30
- ISSN
0014-6242
- Publication type
Short Story Review
- DOI
10.1515/fabula-2013-0004