« Et si Félicité portait malheur ? »

Félicité, the perfect kind-hearted servant girl, is unfortunate. It is well known. But a certain “roughness” in the story challenges the rather smooth portrait (considering even her relationship to Loulou) that is usually drawn of this character. This “roughness” is confirmed and even emphasized in...

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Main Author: Marie Scarpa
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2013-12-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2162
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description Félicité, the perfect kind-hearted servant girl, is unfortunate. It is well known. But a certain “roughness” in the story challenges the rather smooth portrait (considering even her relationship to Loulou) that is usually drawn of this character. This “roughness” is confirmed and even emphasized in the “avant-textes”. Is Félicité so perfect in her role (thematic and anthropologic) of the “helping woman”? It seems that her relation to fate (bad luck) and to death (bad deaths) could be here reexamined.
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spelling doaj.art-24b395bce5584692a92251c97f3d4eff2022-12-22T00:26:03ZfraInstitut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique1969-61912013-12-01« Et si Félicité portait malheur ? »Marie ScarpaFélicité, the perfect kind-hearted servant girl, is unfortunate. It is well known. But a certain “roughness” in the story challenges the rather smooth portrait (considering even her relationship to Loulou) that is usually drawn of this character. This “roughness” is confirmed and even emphasized in the “avant-textes”. Is Félicité so perfect in her role (thematic and anthropologic) of the “helping woman”? It seems that her relation to fate (bad luck) and to death (bad deaths) could be here reexamined.http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2162
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