L'ECRITURE DU BONHEUR DANS LE FIL DE SOIE (SOI) DE MICHELE GAZIER: LA FUSION DES AMES SŒURS

Translated title of the contribution: THE WRITING OF HAPPINESS IN THE SILK THREAD BY MICHÈLE GAZIER: THE FUSION OF SOUL MATES

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Abstract

Le Fil de soie (The Silk Thread) by Michèle Gazier is an ambitious work, conceived in a fairy-like as well as fantastic style, while maintaining a real framework. Against the backdrop of haute couture history, the mystery of a love story unfolds in a variation on the myth of Narcissus while providing an intriguing tale. Gazier questions the fragility and discontinuity of happiness. The story is developed through "images" and words presented in a magical environment. I would like to question here the way in which Gazier explores and sets the course for the happiness of an exceptional couple. In other words, I will question the relationship between the story and the original way in which the ideas of happiness are treated. Focusing on the representation of happiness as it is constructed in this novel engages a double questioning: first of all, how stylistically, the fantastic characteristics as they are inscribed in the story reveal by writing, aspects of expressing happiness? Then, on the diegetic level, I will interrogate how an identity is built without borders, erasing the differences between two beings who love each other.

Translated title of the contributionTHE WRITING OF HAPPINESS IN THE SILK THREAD BY MICHÈLE GAZIER: THE FUSION OF SOUL MATES
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)41-51
Number of pages11
JournalAlea: estudos neolatinos
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2022

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Keywords

  • Happiness
  • androgyny
  • fantastic
  • identity
  • narcissism
  • passion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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