TY - JOUR
TI - Angélique Rougon: a novelistic version of the savage child. An anthropological reading of Emile Zola’s Le Rêve
AU - Drouot, Fanny
TI - Angélique Rougon: a novelistic version of the savage child. An anthropological reading of Emile Zola’s Le Rêve
AB - Angélique Rougon is the main character from Le Rêve, a novel from Emile Zola’s Rougon–Macquart cycle, atypical because the author originally conceived of it in a way radically different from the rest of his work. He promises his heroine a happy destiny by moving her from her abandoned childhood identity to a triumphant marital status. But the tale fails at the same time as the project for a successful socialization, and the novel becomes an expression of two tensions: a literary tension on one side, because of the gap between the first plan and the completed text; and an anthropological tension on the other because it questions the possibility of a happy evolution from a symbolical savage state to an environment defined by its ancestral culture.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 55
PY - 2023
SN - 0078-6500
C1 - 2657-5337
SP - 5
EP - 24
DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.23.001.17682
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/angelique-rougon-une-declinaison-romanesque-de-lenfant-sauvage-pour-une-lecture-anthropologique-du-reve-demile-zola
KW - anthropology
KW - savage child
KW - Emile Zola
KW - epistemocriticism
KW - litterature