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Voltaire's influence in Québec has been well documented since Marcel Trudel's 1945 book; see also the articles I have been given to the Cahiers Voltaire for the last fifteen years. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's presence, on the other hand, has not been studied, with the exception of an article by Monique Moser-Verrey (1987). It is nonetheless important in literary texts as well as in the media, as shown by the students' general strikes of 2012 and by a growing number of texts dealing with the way the self is expressed today (Catherine Mavrikakis, Jean-Philippe Martel, Nicolas Lévesque, René Bolduc, Thomas O. St-Pierre). I want to shed light on this constant and profound, if disperse, influence.
Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lumières, Dix-huitième siècle, Canada, Québec, Histoire culturelle, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Enlightenment, Eighteenth century, Canada, Quebec, Cultural history, Voltaire
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For Jan Herman, the self-reflexivity in Jacques the Fatalist takes the form of three closely related poetic adventures. First of all, Diderot's text highlights the difficult equilibrium between the arbitrariness of the author's unlimited freedom and his commitment to the constraints of a code passed on by tradition. Here, the self-reflexivity takes the form of metalepsis. Secondly, Diderot's discourse reflects on the obligation to found the authority of the text on its material possibility by means of a “genetic narrative.” Here, the self-reflexivity takes the form of irony. Jacques' flask is the pivot around which the third adventure, concerning the notion of inspiration, revolves. Through the figure of the Sacred Bottle, the narrative evokes a culture of inebriation in which it can only participate by means of a mise en abyme which renders it irretrievable.
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