This article shows how Musset, who sometimes plays the violent and frenetic eroticism card with hints of the macabre as he does in Gamiani ou deux nuits d’excès, prefers to adopt a gauzy aesthetic inherited from the eighteenth-century libertine, consisting of a slight veiling of what is rawest in favor of the exciting seduction of glimpsed nudities and various gradations of stripping. He calls upon the complicit participation of the reader, whom he turns into a voyeur.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09225-4
EAN:9782406092254
ISSN: 0035-2136
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09225-4.p.0019
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-30-2019
Periodicity: Monthly
Language: French
Keyword: Alfred de Musset, nineteenth-century French literature, romanticism, libertine novel, eroticism, pornography, reception aesthetics