The Actor Julien Sorel

Authors

  • Renan Ji Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.1.163-180

Keywords:

novel, history, theatricality, actor, Stendhal

Abstract

The essay analyses the novel The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, focusing on theatricality as thematic aspect as well as narrative procedure. More specifically, it investigates how the metaphor of the actor can clarify the importance of the fictional character in the narrative. The character conflicts with the historical background of the novel, in the sense that bares a heroic and tragic meaning that is strange to the bourgeois cultural universe, and much more akin to the Ancien Régime of monarchy. In dialogue with some critics and theoreticians that gave thought to Stendhal’s work, this essay seeks to understand such specificity related to the individual character in the categories of time and space of the historical novel.

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STENDHAL. O vermelho e o negro. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1979.

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Published

2018-04-27

How to Cite

Ji, R. (2018). The Actor Julien Sorel. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 28(1), 163–180. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.28.1.163-180

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2018): A Questão dos Gêneros Literários na Modernidade

Section

Dossiê – A Questão dos Gêneros Literários na Modernidade

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