TY - JOUR
TI - To destroy Reality: the « extravagant sap » of Paradou
AU - Guermès, Sophie
TI - To destroy Reality: the « extravagant sap » of Paradou
AB - Naturalism is based on the sense of Reality. But Zola broke this one in the second part of his novel La Faute de l’abbé Mouret, by the description of the garden named « Paradou ». As usual, he used numerous documents and he inserted lists of names (flowers, plants, trees) into his novel ; but the result is not the same as in the other novels containing lists of names of foodstuffs (Le Ventre de Paris) or clothes (Au Bonheur des dames). The reference vanishes because Zola often accumulates names of plants unknown although existing ; besides, he multiplies metaphors, so that it is impossible to visualize Paradou, which is a strange creation. The description of the garden distorts and even destroys reality but builds a poetic object.
VL - 2013
IS - Numéro 3
PY - 2013
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 69
EP - 82
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.13.005.2118
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/detruire-le-reel-loutrance-de-seve-du-paradou-a-propos-de-la-faute-de-labbe-mouret-demile-zola
KW - Zola
KW - naturalism
KW - description
KW - misrepresentation