Love and letter
In Hardy’s fiction love often entails biblical resurgences, notably from the New Testament. Among these, the first epistle to the Corinthians seems to be the most widely used. One thinks for instance of the strong echoes of it in The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscur...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_138 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.138 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.138 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/138 2013-10-23T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gah7 All rights reserved Love and letter FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Lemardelé, Gildas roman amour Bible religion intertextualité lettre épître réécriture novel love Bible religion intertextuality letter epistle rewriting In Hardy’s fiction love often entails biblical resurgences, notably from the New Testament. Among these, the first epistle to the Corinthians seems to be the most widely used. One thinks for instance of the strong echoes of it in The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure.However, the attention granted to Job and Ecclesiastes has often led the diffuse yet insistent presence of Pauline writings in Hardy’s novels to be neglected, or has led to excessively narrow parallels. It will thus be necessary to probe into the patterns shared by the apostle and the writer, and into the modes of this intertextuality, in the light of Hardy’s well-know ambivalence towards Holy Scriptures, and of the paradoxes of his religious approach. This paper endeavours to get a better grasp on the torsions and inversions imposed by Hardy on the principle of love par excellence (Christian charity or agapè) that is expounded in the epistle to the Corinthians. The integration of this biblical hypotext, and its appropriation by Hardy, lead in effect to the transformation of the epistle and of peripheral Pauline writings. This process of rewriting, which obviously implies a secularisation of the sacred and evinces a loss of the original divine perspective, constantly establishes and dissolves links between St Paul’s precepts and hardyan thought.The supposed influence of paulinism therefore seems to contain a strong polemical dimension, which the author weaves and unveils novel after novel. The novels illustrate the cruel or ironic limits of ideal love, which becomes deadly when it is elevated as a law, and remains inaccessible for the human subject without a divine perspective. Bien souvent chez Hardy l’amour comporte ses résurgences bibliques, notamment néotestamentaires. Parmi celles-ci, la première épître aux Corinthiens semble bien figurer en tête. On pense par exemple aux forts échos trouvés dans The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles ou Jude the Obscure.Toutefois, l’attention accordée à Job et à l’Ecclésiaste a souvent fait négliger la présence diffuse et insistante des écrits pauliniens dans les romans de Hardy, ou a donné lieu à des rapprochements trop stricts. Il faudra alors se pencher sur les schèmes communs au théologien et à l’écrivain, et sur les modalités de cette intertextualité, à la lumière de l’ambivalence hardyenne face aux Saintes Écritures, et des paradoxes de son approche religieuse. Cette étude tente en particulier de mieux cerner les torsions que l’écrivain fait subir au principe de l’amour par excellence (charité chrétienne, ou agapè) qui est exposé dans l’épître aux Corinthiens. L’intégration de cet hypotexte biblique, et son appropriation par Hardy, conduisent de fait à la transformation de cette épître, et des écrits pauliniens périphériques. Ce procédé de réécriture, qui implique une laïcisation certaine du sacré et donne à voir une déperdition de la perspective divine originelle, établit et dissout en permanence des liens entre les préceptes de saint Paul et la pensée hardyenne. L’influence supposée du paulinisme semble alors contenir une dimension polémique forte, que l’auteur tisse et dévoile au fil des romans. Ceux-ci illustrent les limites cruelles ou ironiques d’un amour idéal, qui devient mortifère s’il est érigé en loi, et demeure inaccessible pour le sujet humain sans perspective divine. |
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In Hardy’s fiction love often entails biblical resurgences, notably from the New Testament. Among these, the first epistle to the Corinthians seems to be the most widely used. One thinks for instance of the strong echoes of it in The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure.However, the attention granted to Job and Ecclesiastes has often led the diffuse yet insistent presence of Pauline writings in Hardy’s novels to be neglected, or has led to excessively narrow parallels. It will thus be necessary to probe into the patterns shared by the apostle and the writer, and into the modes of this intertextuality, in the light of Hardy’s well-know ambivalence towards Holy Scriptures, and of the paradoxes of his religious approach. This paper endeavours to get a better grasp on the torsions and inversions imposed by Hardy on the principle of love par excellence (Christian charity or agapè) that is expounded in the epistle to the Corinthians. The integration of this biblical hypotext, and its appropriation by Hardy, lead in effect to the transformation of the epistle and of peripheral Pauline writings. This process of rewriting, which obviously implies a secularisation of the sacred and evinces a loss of the original divine perspective, constantly establishes and dissolves links between St Paul’s precepts and hardyan thought.The supposed influence of paulinism therefore seems to contain a strong polemical dimension, which the author weaves and unveils novel after novel. The novels illustrate the cruel or ironic limits of ideal love, which becomes deadly when it is elevated as a law, and remains inaccessible for the human subject without a divine perspective. |
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