Montaubin M.-F. ( 1997), Mort J e Balzac, Cahiers Octave Mirbcau. n° 4, 1997, pp. 267-280. Rosset F. (1996), L'Arbre de Cracovie, Le mythe polonais dans la littérature, Paris, IMAGO.

• Authors: Arnaud Vareille

Title variants

PL

« C'est la vie qui exagère » : quelques remarques à propos de la mort de Balzac dans « La 628- E8 » d'Octave Mirbeau

EN

"It is life that exaggerates": some remarks on Balzac's death in Octave Mirbeau's novel La 628-E8

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In the novel La 628-E8 declaring his disgust with art, as if looking for a confirmation of his feeling, Octave Mirbeau dedicates three subchapters of his work to Balzac, in order to create a biography, taking into account only the figure of the writer as a man, leaving out his oeuvre. But while the text seems to be a farewell with literature and with its effect of artificiality, praising the virtues of the text-document containing elements which are exclusively the author's own, a fragment which describes Balzac's death makes the word emerge in all its complexity: the word as an evidence of reality or as an invention. Thus, through its nature of elusiveness, it becomes a reconciliation between literature and life.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 185-194

Dates

published

2005-10-01

Contributors

author

Arnaud Vareille

References

• Montaubin M.-F. ( 1997), Mort J e Balzac, Cahiers Octave Mirbcau. n° 4, 1997, pp. 267-280.
• Rosset F. (1996), L'Arbre de Cracovie, Le mythe polonais dans la littérature, Paris, IMAGO.

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2005.32.013