TY - JOUR
TI - Vocations in failure? The fate of the writer and the literature in Un coco de génie de Louis Dumur
AU - Opiela‐Mrozik, Anna
TI - Vocations in failure? The fate of the writer and the literature in Un coco de génie de Louis Dumur
AB - The article presents the profile of Louis Dumur, a French writer of Swiss origin, one of the founders and indefatigable editor of new Mercure de France. Although Dumur was an average poet and playwright and author of nationalist texts, he wrote a novel Un coco de génie (1902), in which he addresses the issue of the writer’s vocation and the mission of literature. The story of a seedman’s son, who suddenly discovers his literary talent and faces reluctance from the uncultivated local community, is a satire on the petty bourgeoisie society. It is all the more virulent because the young creator turns out to be a somnambulist who recreates masterpieces of world literature. This unconscious rewriting leads the first-person narrator of the novel to reflect on the process of creating itself. Thus Dumur anticipates the appearance of the concept of intertextuality and the text being a mosaic of quotations.
VL - 2024
IS - Numéro 39
PY - 2024
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 119
EP - 137
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.24.014.20189
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/des-vocations-en-echec-le-destin-de-lecrivain-et-de-la-litterature-dans-un-coco-de-genie-de-louis-dumur
KW - vocation
KW - literature
KW - writer
KW - somnambulism