La Duchesse de Langeais / La Fille aux yeux d'or by Honoré de Balzac

La Duchesse de Langeais / La Fille aux yeux d

Opportunity to remain fixated on a repressed past, rather than using itĪs an opportunity to evolve into a newly-forged modernity.Īmong all the other journeys that are undertaken or described in Laĭuchesse de Langeais-military exploits, scientific expeditions, flights A character like Armand de Montriveau in La Duchesseĭe Langeais, for all that he is exemplarily detached from family andįrom the state, still runs the risk of seizing upon kidnapping as an Yet even a kidnapper has a past that is being reworked in the violence Personal evolution of that identity, and a radical break with this past. Identity, kidnapping implies at once a re-examination of the social and Preoccupation with the issue of how even the most emancipated of hisĬontemporaries remained fundamentally bound up in historical events Kidnapper's position is complicated still further by Balzac's (1) In La Duchesse de Langeais, the question of the May unleash, concerning their own self-identity as much as that of their That kidnappers, too, should beware of what revelations their abductions Perpetrator is also forced to abandon firmly-held ideas remains unclear.īalzac's earlier novella Sarrasine (1830) stands as a case in point

Profoundly and even ontologically challenged, the degree to which the Self-revelation of the kidnapper, and this secondary objective is Neutral, for kidnapping in Balzac is also conceived as the forum for the Notion of desire suggests, the captor's position is far from Will be laid bare to the desiring eye of the kidnapper. Self-enclosed private system will be revealed that is, the private self Her public identity, the true value associated with a hidden and Hypocritical milieu, and completely disoriented with respect to his or The assumption that if someone is violently removed from this Restoration when the story is set, is represented by Balzac as entirelyĭominated by conflicting systems, from the political and ideological to The public sphere, particularly at the time of the That it seeks to bring its victim from a public into a private space,Īnd thus into direct confrontation with the intimate thoughts of the Primary objective of kidnapping is as much psychological as physical, in Of the main traveler, for they take the form of a kidnapping. These symbolically-charged voyages are involuntary, at least on the part Honore de Balzac's 1834 novella La Duchesse de Langeais is a

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La Duchesse de Langeais / La Fille aux yeux d'or by Honoré de Balzac