The « Signalman » de Dickens – ou le crime sans châtiment
In this short story, Dickens is commonly supposed to have tried his hand at the fantastic, writing a ghost story both gripping and enigmatic: a nightmarish atmosphere, the fatal encounter of a middle class narrator visiting a working class signalman, a pathetic ending, the hand of fate itself… We ch...
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2004
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openedition-oai:revues.org:jsse_404 fr https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/404 2004-09-01T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/hb27 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The « Signalman » de Dickens – ou le crime sans châtiment Journal of the Short Story in English Presses universitaires de Rennes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6108 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0294-0442 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse Gilbert, Bernard In this short story, Dickens is commonly supposed to have tried his hand at the fantastic, writing a ghost story both gripping and enigmatic: a nightmarish atmosphere, the fatal encounter of a middle class narrator visiting a working class signalman, a pathetic ending, the hand of fate itself… We choose to follow the clues that Dickens gives with impeccable and implacable precision and which transform this horror story into a detective story with moral and political warnings. In this light, this improbable encounter turns into the destruction of a gullible working class martyr by his better, as the visitor/ narrator complacently pictures himself. Inexorably Dickens sets into motion a terrible narrative mechanism, ending on the sacrifice of the signalman by an executioner understanding too late his role as the helpless representative of a modern vision of hell. |
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In this short story, Dickens is commonly supposed to have tried his hand at the fantastic, writing a ghost story both gripping and enigmatic: a nightmarish atmosphere, the fatal encounter of a middle class narrator visiting a working class signalman, a pathetic ending, the hand of fate itself… We choose to follow the clues that Dickens gives with impeccable and implacable precision and which transform this horror story into a detective story with moral and political warnings. In this light, this improbable encounter turns into the destruction of a gullible working class martyr by his better, as the visitor/ narrator complacently pictures himself. Inexorably Dickens sets into motion a terrible narrative mechanism, ending on the sacrifice of the signalman by an executioner understanding too late his role as the helpless representative of a modern vision of hell. |
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