Avis de Marianne, vérité de Marivaux

Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises

关键词: Marivaux (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de);    18th c. Novel;    truth;    véridicité;    véridiction;   

DOI  :  10.4000/rief.6441

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The 18th century was a time of formal experimentation for French novelists, and among them Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, whose Vie de Marianne, although a major contribution in that context, has rarely beeen recognized as such. In this novel, Marivaux departs from the playfulness he had cultivated in his earlier « antiromans », without abiding by the narrative conventions established at the time to grant vraisemblance to the novel. The question of Marianne's identity – an identity without any possible authentication – serves as a mere pretext for exploring two possible inscriptions of truth in the novel: véridicité and véridiction. Véridicité, by displacing the question of truth from utterance (content) to “speaker” (character), makes veracity, not accurracy, the touchstone of novelistic truth, while véridiction, relocating truthfulness in the very structure of the narrative, dodges the accusations of inherent falsity brandished by the adversaries of the novel. Michel Foucault's last courses and Oswald Ducrot's theory of pre-suppositions will help us to revisit La Vie de Marianne along those lines.

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