TY - JOUR
TI - La « laide vérité ». Le rêve de Cahus revisité
AU - Gorecka-Kalita, Joanna
TI - La « laide vérité ». Le rêve de Cahus revisité
AB - 
	“The Ugly Truth”. Cahus’ Dream Revisited

	The aim of this paper is to propose an analysis of the Cahus’ Dream, a well known episode of the Perlesvaus, Arthurian romance from the 13th century, within the context of the medieval dream theories. Inspired mostly by Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio – fo­cusing on the divinatory (or deceptive/ illusory) role of dreams – as well as by Tertullian’s and Augustine’s Christian reflections on the relations between the soul and the sleeping body, these theories permit to shed a new light on the oneiric adventure of the squire. In fact, the author furnishes numerous clues which make it look as an insomnium or fantasma: a false, illusory dream, deprived of any deeper signification. Thus, unable of uncovering some hidden, symbolic meaning, the mirage paradoxically turns out to be a material, “ugly”, as the text has it, truth, blurring the border between dream and reality in a most confusing way, and setting the specific Perlesvaus tone from the very beginning of the romance.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 13, Issue 1
PY - 2018
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 15
EP - 24
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.18.002.8280
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/la-laide-verite-le-reve-de-cahus-revisite
KW - Perlesvaus (Le Haut Livre du Graal)
KW - dream turning real
KW - nightmare
KW - phantasm
KW - medieval dream theories
KW - Macrobius
KW - Augustine
KW - divination
KW - Arthurian romance