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Normal 0 21 false false false FR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tableau Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} "First edition of the story of Manon Lescaut and the chevalier des Grieux." Manon Lescaut was to occupy a decisive position in the history of the French novel. "A novel as interesting in its adventures as an adventure novel, as moving as a tragedy, as well thought out in its characters as a novel of analysis, realistic in its exact depiction of contemporary customs and in its study of a moral problem which, for more than a century, was to dominate literature, that of the struggle against pleasure and passion." According to his habit, Prévost uses a genre that was very popular in the eighteenth century: the fictional memoir. This method of retrospective narration allows the author to multiply the adventures, which each time revolve around a love story ending in the death of the woman. The Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, which is easy to separate from the rest of the Mémoires since it was not lived by the narrator but was reported to him, was immediately so successful that it overshadowed the rest of Prévost's work. ?All the meaning of the novel, all the fascination it exerts, rests on this particular position of des Grieux : trying to draw Manon into his exaltation of love and obliged to suffer the consequences of his infidelities and his dizzy pursuit of pleasures and money, having sacrificed everything to love, lived as an absolute, and led by this love to compromise himself with prostitution, theft, murder, to deceive his family, to exploit his friends, like Tiberge or M. de T. By calling Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut, the reader forgets the work of recollection and idealisation carried out by the lover, and retains only the object; what Des Grieux puts at the centre of his life and of his destiny, but remains the most secret, the most irreducibly veiled. The mystery of Manon lies in her place in the novel, since she is seen through the image that des Grieux has and wants to give of her, but it also lies in the impossibility of reconciling her lover's sentimental expectations with what she can do socially and materially. The paradox of the novel builds on Manon's character: her lover, in order to bring her into his pathetic narrative and give their love a tragic dimension, has to invoke everything in her behaviour and character that has caused unhappiness, and reveals her indignity and precludes any heroism: her levity, her swindles, her courting, her deportation. Manon is therefore as tragic as she is not: beyond mourning, des Grieux locks himself into a contradiction with no way out, and this is what gives his story its dramatic value. Prévost's originality lies in having suggested the force of passion by opposing it with tangible, and sometimes grotesque, details: lodgings, a rented carriage, an account of expenses, illicit gains, swindles, a loaded pistol, a forced room, a forgotten panty. But he does not only use material conditions as obstacles to feelings, he makes them part of Des Grieux's apprehension of love, in his attempt to give it meaning, and to recompose an image of himself and Manon that justifies his conduct and takes the place of what he has lost: they are part of him, and of what he seeks to understand and say about it. This process of integration affects the daily basis of. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LCS-17958
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