The Roles of the Gaze in Balzac’s "Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu"
Keywords:
Balzac, artistic look, exchange, artistic failure, eros, artistic ideal.
Abstract
Through a story set in the artistic world, Balzac’s work Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu unveils a whole series of implications that the gaze has in art and life. This article aims at analyzing the roles played by the gaze – considered in a double dimension, both as a creative and a destructive force – in the complex network of relationships in which the three painters (Porbus, Poussin and Frehnofer), and the three ambiguous feminine figures (Mary of Egypt, Gillette and Catherine Lescaut) are involved.Downloads
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Published
2012-05-27
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Monah R. (2012). The Roles of the Gaze in Balzac’s "Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu". Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 27, 261-277. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2012.v27.38936
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