Language:
French
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Romantisme; revue du dix-neuvième siècle
Angaben zur Quelle:
84 (1994) 79-92
Keywords:
Mirbeau, Octave,
;
Dreyfus, Alfred,
;
Lazare, Bernard,
;
Trials (Treason)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Notes the proliferation of narrative works dealing with the Dreyfus Affair, often related to the social trauma caused by this event, compared with the period just before the Affair, between 1889-90, when French literature and society experienced a grave crisis of narrative. Analyzes Octave Mirbeau's novel "Le journal d'une femme de chambre" (1900) in its three variants (the first from 1891), juxtaposing the lack of narrative of the servant, whose figure mirrors that of the Jew and the spy, to the dramatic narrative of the antisemite Joseph, an assiduous reader of the antisemitic journal "La Libre Parole". Argues that the Affair was not greatly amplified due to the virulence of antisemitism; rather the exacerbated hatred and antisemitism arose from a desperate need for adhesion to narrative, a basic need for so extreme a fiction that it could become real in a time of crisis.
Description / Table of Contents:
Binyamini, Nissan. Représentations illégitimes; Dreyfus, ou la fin de l'anarchisme. Ibid. 87 (1995) 75-86.
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