L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny

Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine

L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny

Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine

Authors

Professor Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze catherine.dousteyssier@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

This article focuses on two novels Ð Tous Quatre (1885) and Le Termite (1890) Ð by two Naturalist writers of the so-called second generation, Paul Margueritte and J.-H. Rosny, who were among the signatories of the famous "Manifeste des Cinq" (1887). It argues that these self-reflexive and self-parodical novels "narrativize" the crisis suffered by the Naturalist movement in the 1880s by showing two fictional (Naturalist) writers struggling against the "anxiety of influence." Through the strategy of mise en abyme these novels show both how Naturalism was undermined from within and how the young Naturalist writers were trying to renew Naturalism as a genre and expand the boundaries of fiction by experimenting with a kind of ultimate and narcissistic brand of Naturalism.

Citation

Dousteyssier-Khoze, C. (2003). L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny. Nineteenth-century French studies, 31(1-2), 123-137

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2003
Deposit Date	Mar 20, 2008
Journal	Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Print ISSN	0146-7891
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	31
Issue	1-2
Pages	123-137
Keywords	Fin de siècle.
Publisher URL	http://www.unl.edu/ncfs/