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24593.More information
Keywords: Eberhardt, Isabelle, Algérie, Écrivains voyageurs, Transfuge, Filiation féminine, Lotman, Youri, Jullien, François, Sebbar, Leila, Mokeddem, Malika
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24594.More information
Keywords: Observation, Esclaves, Stéréotypes, Orientalisme
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This article is based on the assumption that the paratext (as theorised by Gérard Genette) assumes a particular significance in the context of the mystères urbains, a plethora of popular urban mystery novels produced in response to the unprecedented success of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris (1842-34). If the notion of a transgression of limits is at the heart of the diegesis in these urban mysteries, I maintain that the preface in particular, whose participation in the diegesis proves insistent, also constitutes a ‘space of transgression.’ Using examples from Victor Verneuil’s Les Mystères de Nancy (1845) and Jules Lermina’s ‘Mystère-ville’ (1904-05), among other texts, I examine the specious rhetoric of initiation emphasised in these prefaces, as well as delayed and fictional prefaces. The characteristic and playful use of the preface perpetuates both the lucrative formula of the mystères urbains and the appealing and typically modernist association of city and text.
Keywords: Eugène Sue, Eugène Sue, mystères urbains, preface, paratexte, city, urban mysteries, préface, paratext, ville
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