Entre désir de transparence et opacité du mystère
The investigation which is carried out in A Maggot—with religious sectarianism in the background—allows the reader of the postmodern novel to assess the strategies of disruption such as they are developed by John Fowles on the basis of S. S. Van Dine’s paradigms of detective stories in 1928. Deducti...
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| description | The investigation which is carried out in A Maggot—with religious sectarianism in the background—allows the reader of the postmodern novel to assess the strategies of disruption such as they are developed by John Fowles on the basis of S. S. Van Dine’s paradigms of detective stories in 1928. Deductive reasoning appears as the structural principle of the judge on oath, hiding behind his preconceived ideology and his conventional “alphabet” ; the latter has most often to cope with the mystical nature of the events that allegedly occurred in Stonehenge or in the Exmoor cavern in the xviiith century. This article aims to reconstruct the semantic core of mystery from the lies, the half-truths and false evidence which filter through the judge’s speech in the same way as they are tinged with his subjectivity. Through their digression and the embedding in their own echoing speech of the other’s words—which turns them into real parrots—the main actors who are called as witnesses to clear up the diegetic erasure of the young Bartholomew together with the death of his dumb servant “work more towards the emergence of secret darkness”, than they put the detectives in the picture. As they try to establish a transparent connection between the irrepressibly esoteric, unfathomable nature of accounted facts and the fanatical Cartesianism of their monolithic consciousness, the narrators tend to raise ontological and metaleptic questions in the perspective of reconstruction and reappropriation of a chaotic world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6e4840758c41445f9d9e3ee573c2594d2022-12-22T00:53:27ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines1168-49172271-54442013-09-014410.4000/ebc.474Entre désir de transparence et opacité du mystèreSonia SaubionThe investigation which is carried out in A Maggot—with religious sectarianism in the background—allows the reader of the postmodern novel to assess the strategies of disruption such as they are developed by John Fowles on the basis of S. S. Van Dine’s paradigms of detective stories in 1928. Deductive reasoning appears as the structural principle of the judge on oath, hiding behind his preconceived ideology and his conventional “alphabet” ; the latter has most often to cope with the mystical nature of the events that allegedly occurred in Stonehenge or in the Exmoor cavern in the xviiith century. This article aims to reconstruct the semantic core of mystery from the lies, the half-truths and false evidence which filter through the judge’s speech in the same way as they are tinged with his subjectivity. Through their digression and the embedding in their own echoing speech of the other’s words—which turns them into real parrots—the main actors who are called as witnesses to clear up the diegetic erasure of the young Bartholomew together with the death of his dumb servant “work more towards the emergence of secret darkness”, than they put the detectives in the picture. As they try to establish a transparent connection between the irrepressibly esoteric, unfathomable nature of accounted facts and the fanatical Cartesianism of their monolithic consciousness, the narrators tend to raise ontological and metaleptic questions in the perspective of reconstruction and reappropriation of a chaotic world.http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/474EisenzweigFowlesVan Dine |
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