AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
The journal is indexed in CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, and ERIH PLUS.
AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2015 No 1 (2015), 27–40
Pierre Loti et le malaise fin de siècle
[Pierre Loti and the Fin-De-Siècle Malaise]
Moe Binarová
published online: 29. 04. 2015
abstract
Pierre Loti is an author of the disenchanted generation that refused positivism and naturalism in favour of aesthetic refinement and structural decomposition. His work embodies perfectly the fin de siecle malaise that of seeking to evade the mundane, especially by traveling through time and space but also by eccentric clothing and aestheticism. This malaise shows itself also through his intense intellectual and moral crisis: suffering, the anxiety of death that torments the writer and also his desolate pessimism. Such exotic idylls and distant civilizations evidenced Loti ’ s need of evasion even though the idea of death and of the vanity of human actions constantly obsesses his anguished soul. This ambiguity of “happiness within pessimism” constitutes the unity of the fin de siecle state of mind.
keywords: French literature; Pierre Loti; fin de siècle; evasion; exotic idyll; anxiety of death Littérature française; Pierre Loti; fin de siècle; évasion; idylle exotique; angoisse de la mort
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ISSN: 0567-8269
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