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.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-15788-5
EAN:9782406157885
ISSN: 2552-1004
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15788-5.p.0165
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-29-2023
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Juliette, Eiffel Tower, Paris, Garden of Eden, vocation, metaphor