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T1 Le verger de Deduit, un 'paradis artificiel'?
T2 Deduit's orchard, an 'artificial paradise'?
A1 Armand Strubel
K1 paradise
K1 locus amoenus
K1 fascination
AB Why does Genius show such a stubborn disdain for Diversion’s garden? Nature’s priest “moralises” this space: since then, before “the lamb’s park”, the charming hall built on the topoi of lyricism undergoes an ontological deficit whereby it becomes an “artificial paradise”. This locus amoenus stands as a place of temptation, a passive aesthetic contemplation site which the narrator turns into a bare inventory of nice perceptions. But such fascination does sometimes verge pathological borders, allowing only for reflections or illusions. How real can these roses, reflections of other reflections, be? This is a self-enclosed world gazing at itself: the young one looks at Oiseuse, who looks at herself in the mirror... Here the peril consists on the bewitchment of gaze, lost in an ongoing process of repetition and frustration. Such is the destiny awaiting Lover by the rosebush, facing —like Narcissus— the unreachable feature of the object of desire. But, isn’t this the real lesson Love is teaching, that which the God Love surreptitiously brings into his commandments?
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 1135-125X
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4234
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4234
LA fr
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-nov-2024