TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Pinon, Esther
TI  - “A saint magnetizer to be adored on one’s knees” - Magnetism as art of seduction in Musset
T2  - Le Réel invisible 2022 – 12. Le magnétisme dans la littérature (1780-1914)
JO  - Le Réel invisible (ISSN 0035-2136), 2022 – 12
DO  - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14537-0.p.0299
SN  - 0035-2136
SP  - 299
EP  - 314
AB  - Magnetism seems to be a secondary motif in Musset’s work, which only deals with the subject in three texts, two of which remain unfinished. A reading of these texts, to which scattered allusions are added throughout the work, nevertheless reveals a genuine fascination of the author for the theory of fluids, which he closely links to a thought of seduction. Magnetism is seductive in more ways than one: associated with an imaginary world that is sometimes libertine, sometimes fantastic, it gives readers the thrill of the strange and the forbidden. But its pleasant, even sulphurous dimension conceals deep questions on the laws governing the attraction of bodies and souls, on the flimsy line between credulity and faith and, ultimately, on the powers of writing.
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/07
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - fluid, seduction, suggestion, writing, belief.
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/le-reel-invisible-2022-12-le-magnetisme-dans-la-litterature-1780-1914-a-saint-magnetizer-to-be-adored-on-one-s-knees.html
Y2  - 2024/05/18
ER  -