TY - JOUR
T1 - À nous deux, Balzac
T2 - Barrès's Les Déracinés, and the ghosts of La Comédie humaine
AU - Proulx, Francois
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article examines how Balzacian plots of ambition and ascension are held up as both possibility and impossibility in Maurice Barres's 1897 novel Les Déracinés, where they are subject to repeated, oft en simultaneous citation and denegation. After showing how Barres, through a series of pronouncements about Balzac in his early career, attempts to def ne himself by renouncing this powerful model, I propose that Balzac and his iconic characters, Rastignac first among them, have an effaced but lingering presence in Les Déracinés that might be best described as a haunting. In an article from 1886, Paul Bourget heralds.
AB - This article examines how Balzacian plots of ambition and ascension are held up as both possibility and impossibility in Maurice Barres's 1897 novel Les Déracinés, where they are subject to repeated, oft en simultaneous citation and denegation. After showing how Barres, through a series of pronouncements about Balzac in his early career, attempts to def ne himself by renouncing this powerful model, I propose that Balzac and his iconic characters, Rastignac first among them, have an effaced but lingering presence in Les Déracinés that might be best described as a haunting. In an article from 1886, Paul Bourget heralds.
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U2 - 10.1353/ncf.2014.0018
DO - 10.1353/ncf.2014.0018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901717273
SN - 0146-7891
VL - 42
SP - 235
EP - 249
JO - Nineteenth-Century French Studies
JF - Nineteenth-Century French Studies
IS - 3-4
ER -