TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Victor, Lucien
TI  - A few words on the “Prière sur la tour Eiffel”
T2  - Cahiers Jean Giraudoux 2023, 51. Le Paris de Jean Giraudoux
JO  - Cahiers Jean Giraudoux (ISSN 2552-1004), 51, 2023
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15788-5.p.0165
SN  - 2552-1004
SP  - 165
EP  - 182
AB  - In the wake of a scandal where Giraudoux was criticized for being a shallow writer, more interested in foreign countries than France, in 1923 he composed a “Prière sur la tour Eiffel,” a text which reappeared in 1924 in Juliette au pays des hommes. The Eiffel Tower allowed him to evoke Paris, a spiritual and moral territory as opposed to a physical space. The text moves from Paris as seen from above down to Giraudoux before ending with a proclamation of his vocation as a writer. The tower is a pretext for discovering Paris, and the tower and Paris pretexts for self-discovery.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/29
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Juliette, Eiffel Tower, Paris, Garden of Eden, vocation, metaphor
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/cahiers-jean-giraudoux-2023-51-le-paris-de-jean-giraudoux-a-few-words-on-the-priere-sur-la-tour-eiffel.html
Y2  - 2024/06/01
ER  -