Paradisi impossibili. Spazi vegetali nel romanzo fin-de-siècle

This essay discusses the modern novel’s attempt to create edenic spaces of natural innocence. It focuses on two French novels, La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret by Emile Zola (1875) and Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti (1880), which both unsuccessfully try to build an edenic chronotope : a vegetal Paradise...

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Main Author: Paola Carmagnani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2012-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2138