L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco
This article proposes a comparison between the final pages of Umberto Eco’s first two novels : The Name of the Rose and The Foucault’s Pendulum. In Eco’s work, the theoretical activity in semiotics and the writing of novels were narrowly intertwined and narration had a very special role because, as...
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| description | This article proposes a comparison between the final pages of Umberto Eco’s first two novels : The Name of the Rose and The Foucault’s Pendulum. In Eco’s work, the theoretical activity in semiotics and the writing of novels were narrowly intertwined and narration had a very special role because, as Eco himself used to say, « what you cannot theorize about, you must narrate ».Hence, in order to better understand this comparison, we need to analyze some aspects of Eco’s thought. The first aspect is his position about realism in philosophical debate ; he supported a specific form of realism, not naïve, which he called « negative ». The second aspect is his « reasonable » approach to theoretical discussion. This reasonableness is always linked to the research of an anchor point, a handhold, a clasp, on which to build the rest of the system. It is exactly the presence of this kind of clasp the difference between the finals of the two novels. In The Name of the Rose the lack of an order brings William to a complete defeat, which leaves him in a state of apathy. On the contrary, in The Foucault’s Pendulum, in a situation even more dramatic than William’s one, Casaubon finally find his serenity, his meaning, in an aesthetic dimension. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e4a7527b51fa442eabce58d7a7ecb7cc2024-02-13T13:08:22ZfraLaboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et SociétésCahiers de Narratologie0993-85161765-307X3310.4000/narratologie.8304L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto EcoPiero PolidoroThis article proposes a comparison between the final pages of Umberto Eco’s first two novels : The Name of the Rose and The Foucault’s Pendulum. In Eco’s work, the theoretical activity in semiotics and the writing of novels were narrowly intertwined and narration had a very special role because, as Eco himself used to say, « what you cannot theorize about, you must narrate ».Hence, in order to better understand this comparison, we need to analyze some aspects of Eco’s thought. The first aspect is his position about realism in philosophical debate ; he supported a specific form of realism, not naïve, which he called « negative ». The second aspect is his « reasonable » approach to theoretical discussion. This reasonableness is always linked to the research of an anchor point, a handhold, a clasp, on which to build the rest of the system. It is exactly the presence of this kind of clasp the difference between the finals of the two novels. In The Name of the Rose the lack of an order brings William to a complete defeat, which leaves him in a state of apathy. On the contrary, in The Foucault’s Pendulum, in a situation even more dramatic than William’s one, Casaubon finally find his serenity, his meaning, in an aesthetic dimension.https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/8304narrationUmberto EcoThe Name of the RoseFoucault’s Pendulumrealismsemiotics |
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| title | L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco |
| title_full | L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco |
| title_fullStr | L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco |
| title_short | L’apathique et l’esthétique. Réflexions sur les clausules du Nom de la rose et du Pendule de Foucault d’Umberto Eco |
| title_sort | l apathique et l esthetique reflexions sur les clausules du nom de la rose et du pendule de foucault d umberto eco |
| topic | narration Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Foucault’s Pendulum realism semiotics |
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