5/30/2023 0 Comments Hugo notre dame de paris résuméFrom a Bakhtinian point of view, it would seem, the problem with Notre-Dame de Paris is the bleak resolution of its carnival promise. Yet the regenerative potential that Bakhtin finds at the heart of aU carnival forms, Hugo specificaUy rejects. With this deeply suggestive beginning, Hugo elects carnival as a dominant motif for his novel. In secular paraUel, the Festival of Fools upends aU worldly hierarchies. In Christian tradition, Epiphany ranks as the generative transpositional moment (the Gentile Magi adore the Christ Chüd). (Blair I)1 To reread Hugo's novel in the Ught ofBakhtin on carnival is to anticipate from this setting some inversion of the world of medieval Paris: some relocation of power, some illuminating or regenerative transposition of values. The cause ofall the commotion on the sixth of January was the double holiday of the Epiphany and the Festival ofFools, united since time immemorial. (Bakhtin, "Problem" 127) Notre-Dame de Paris begins on carnival day: On January 6, 1482, the people ofParis were awakened by the tumultuous clanging of all the bells in the city. (Hugo, "Preface" 32) For the word (and, consequently,for a human being) there is nothing more terrible than a lack of response. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ĬARNrVAL OF SILENCE: BAKHTIN AND HUGO'S NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS Lynn Franken In our opinion a very novel and interesting book might be written upon the employment ofthe grotesque in art.
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