Knowing Oneself as a Subject, Trying Oneself as a Writer: Generic and Formal Hybridizations in Three Early Works (Zola, Loti, Gide)

  • Ilaria Vidotto Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9502

Abstract

Building on three case studies – Émile Zola’s La Confession de Claude (1865), Pierre Loti’s Aziyadé (1879) and André Gide’s Les Cahiers d’André Walter (1891) – this essay analyzes the tension between the autobiographical imprint, which characterizes many early works, and the sometimes intricate fictional transposition of personal experience. The study of the narrative devices and formal hybridizations used in these texts reveals emerging writers’ need for a double self-investigation: as subjects and as novelists.

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Author Biography

Ilaria Vidotto, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Ilaria Vidotto is première assistante diplômée in linguistics and stylistics at the University of Losanna. Her thesis proposes a stylistic study of comparison in Marcel Proust and was published in 2020 by Classiques Garnier (Proust et la comparaison vive). His publications focus on French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries (Proust, Balzac, Aragon, Camus, Duras, Radiguet), as well as on stylistic and rhetorical issues. His current research focuses on juvenilia as a stylistic and socio-poetic category.

Published
2022-11-28
How to Cite
VidottoI. (2022). Knowing Oneself as a Subject, Trying Oneself as a Writer: Generic and Formal Hybridizations in Three Early Works (Zola, Loti, Gide). SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 305-323. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9502
Issue
No 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)
Section
Varia

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