La genèse d’un «anti-livre»: notes sur les personnages de l’“Histoire du roi de Bohême”
Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux (1830), by Charles Nodier, is an ambivalent text, simultaneously an anti-book and a magnum opus, a literary UFO and the fruit of a lengthy gestation period of thirty years. This study examines its avant-textes (from 1801), with an emphasis on the cha...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Studi Francesi
2016
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux (1830), by Charles Nodier, is an ambivalent text, simultaneously an anti-book and a magnum opus, a literary UFO and the fruit of a lengthy gestation period of thirty years. This study examines its avant-textes (from 1801), with an emphasis on the characters. We discover, via an article in the Journal des Mécontens and the Examen critique des dictionnaires, that the trio Théodore, Don Pic and Breloque, which gives shape to the constitutive heterogeneity of the subject, was taken from a book by Italian writer Baretti, reviewed by Nodier in 1813. But Nodier radicalises the scheme and bends it to promote irrationality, by working on onomastics, whose premises can be detected in the Dictionnaire des onomatopées or Le Prince Bibi. As for Popocambou, he is the result of a merger between Popocambo and Bibi, the latter providing evidence of Caylus’s influence on Nodier, obvious in Moi-Même and La Fée aux Miettes. Histoire du roi de Bohême therefore marks the completion of a long-matured project, that makes the exploded book the expression of an anti-absolute. |
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