Author/Authors :
YILMAZ, Ahmet Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Fransız Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
The Novel of Guy de Maupassant in Accordance with Pessimism and Unhappiness: Example of ‘A Life’ and Flaubert’s Effect
شماره ركورد :
37442
Abstract :
Pessimism is one of the most favorite themes of a long period, beginning with Romantic authors and continuing with the realistic ones. The theme, though it differs in terms of the authors and subjects, reveals concluding opinions in any case in the 19th century literary works.The theme of Maupassant is formed not in terms of Nihilistic concept, but of the rejection of specific values, so the author’s novel named ‘A life’ includes both many negative details altogether from his own life and many details based on the meaning of the life and its difficulty. These plots which deepen the theme and nearly most of which come true in a specific negative direction, particularly stem from either a problematic family or social structure and results in deep-rooted pessimism, obsession of death, fear of loneliness, disloyalty, treachery, degeneration and hypocrisy due to the mechanism of triviality.The novel, in which the effects of Schopenhauer and Flaubert converged, tells the fact that a human being faces up to his own inevitable fate beyond himself in any case within a determining concept. It also tells the conflict depending with trivial daily events due to the fact that some corrupted social corporations and regulations, and thus the novel underlines the fact that nothing in the nature of a human being and a society, which always exist is certain.The adventure of Jeanne, the subject of a life full of displeasures and afflictions, each step she took, each event she experienced or imagined takes place in the subjective realm of a negative meta reality. A long way through which Jeanne walks is the one which stresses that the life is neither good nor bad as thought.In this study, it is aimed to reveal and interpret the roots of the themes of pessimism and unhappiness in the novel by Maupassant through a woman heroine, who is a dreamer, desirous, and who loves the life very much, but runs towards her own end with endless fancies and afflictions.
From Page :
45
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Guy de Maupassant , Gustave Flaubert , A Life , Madame Bovary , pessimism , unhappiness
JournalTitle :
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
To Page :
60
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