Chemistry, An Anti-Marriage: Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu
1994; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 109; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2904970
ISSN1080-6598
Autores Tópico(s)French Literature and Poetry
ResumoIn the piece that follows, I would like to address a number of issues which I believe to be peculiarly local to the textual structures of Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu. These are issues whose interpretive force can be extended neither over the rest of Balzac's work, nor over any other, larger sectioning of that class of cultural products commonly known as literature. That is, within the space of this piece, I do not wish to resolve any questions about Balzac, about realism, about French literature, or about writing in general. Instead, I will be following the trajectory of a class of phenomena in La Recherche de l'Absolu which I will call semic accidents. In using such a term, however, I must first negotiate the various possible meanings of the word accident, and I request my reader's patience here as I work through issues which seem, on first glance, quite obvious. First, accident describes an event or an occurence counter either to
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