The analysis of two novels from the 1920s selected as emblematic cases – Le Monde désert by Jouve and La Mort difficile by Crevel – leads the author to point out the connections between the figuration of the subject in literature and the portrait in painting. Indeed, the survival of the portrait itself as a pictorial genre can be seen as a sign of its involvement in the enquiry of identity and subjectivity. This article describes the three main axes that organise subjectivity as a portrait: the fluctuation between stasis and movement, the relational dimension and the fictional one. The portrait becomes the ideal model of a subject conceived as the result of a creative process. Hence, painting is not to be considered a mere narrative theme but a key to the interpretation of the novels and a metaphor of the construction of the subject.
« Si tout sujet est portrait » : figurations du moi dans Le Monde désert et La Mort difficile / Fratta, Anna Paola Soncini; Balestrieri, Fulvia; Guiducci, Andrea; Lombardi, Annalisa. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 89-116.
« Si tout sujet est portrait » : figurations du moi dans Le Monde désert et La Mort difficile
LOMBARDI, ANNALISA
2015
Abstract
The analysis of two novels from the 1920s selected as emblematic cases – Le Monde désert by Jouve and La Mort difficile by Crevel – leads the author to point out the connections between the figuration of the subject in literature and the portrait in painting. Indeed, the survival of the portrait itself as a pictorial genre can be seen as a sign of its involvement in the enquiry of identity and subjectivity. This article describes the three main axes that organise subjectivity as a portrait: the fluctuation between stasis and movement, the relational dimension and the fictional one. The portrait becomes the ideal model of a subject conceived as the result of a creative process. Hence, painting is not to be considered a mere narrative theme but a key to the interpretation of the novels and a metaphor of the construction of the subject.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.