Vol. 8 No 2 (2006)
Critica

Espaces de bonheur dans le voyage mirbellien

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Lola Bermúdez Medina
Universidad de Cádiz
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.8.2006.2.3

Publiée 12/01/2006

Mots-clés

  • Octave Mirbeau,
  • travel,
  • joy,
  • journal,
  • travelogue

Comment citer

Bermúdez Medina, L. (2006). Espaces de bonheur dans le voyage mirbellien. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 8(2), 301–314. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.8.2006.2.3
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Résumé

Certain passages in OctaveMirbeau's novels tend to subdue the imprecatory character of his fiction. This paper addresses what is referred to as espaces de bonheur 'spaces of joy' in La 628-E8 (1907), a personal account of Mirbeau's travels through Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, which displays a number of characteristically modern features - a hybrid journal, travelogue and "self-fiction" - and in which three spaces are explored that please and relieve the author's sensitivity and writing: the automobile itself, the harbour, and art, embodiments of genius, grace, and human effort.

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