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Sentidos da extravagância dos contos em Le Sopha e Ah Quel Conte! de Claude Crébillon
| Summary: | In Le Sopha and Ah quel Conte!, Crébillon turns to extravagance in order to question marvellous exoticism in coeval literature and to propose careful consideration about some issues of both moral and political nature. Metempsychosis, metamorphoses, enchantments, extracted from the vast background of fairy tales’ motives, stimulate the author’s creative imagination, who, loyal to his ironic poetics of game, uses the extravagant and oriental-like fairy tales to criticize morals, in the way of Molière’s comedy. Decent disclosure of social masks is inserted in the quest for true love, which does not correspond to precious ideology, but should instead harmoniously combine “le cœur, l’esprit et les sens”, somewhere between inaccessible pure love and sheer desire masked with false feelings. These oriental and gallant fairy tales are therefore texts in the service of an ironic and sceptical view of society. |
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| Subject: | Conto Crébillon Tale Social and literary criticism Crítica social e literária |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | journal article |
| Access type: | Open |
| Associated institution: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Summary: | In Le Sopha and Ah quel Conte!, Crébillon turns to extravagance in order to question marvellous exoticism in coeval literature and to propose careful consideration about some issues of both moral and political nature. Metempsychosis, metamorphoses, enchantments, extracted from the vast background of fairy tales’ motives, stimulate the author’s creative imagination, who, loyal to his ironic poetics of game, uses the extravagant and oriental-like fairy tales to criticize morals, in the way of Molière’s comedy. Decent disclosure of social masks is inserted in the quest for true love, which does not correspond to precious ideology, but should instead harmoniously combine “le cœur, l’esprit et les sens”, somewhere between inaccessible pure love and sheer desire masked with false feelings. These oriental and gallant fairy tales are therefore texts in the service of an ironic and sceptical view of society. |
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