| Titre | Désirés, raillés, corrigés : les bonzes dévoyés dans le roman en langue vulgaire du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Vincent Durand-Dastès | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 24, 2002 L'anticléricalisme en Chine | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | II. La figure du bonze |
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| Page | 95-112 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Desired, mocked, corrected : stray monks in the vernacular novel from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
The number of monks breaking their vows is so great in the Ming and Qing vernacular novel that this genre has been considered the ultimate expression of Chinese literary anticlericalism. While the oldest novels pictured the stray monk as a seduced ascetic, worthy of both pity and blame, it was not before the early seventeenth-century vogue of the erotic novel that the shameless debauched monk emerged as the stereotypical clerical protagonist. Topping the hierarchy of vices is the barbarian monk, master of sexual magic and equipped with a monstrous body. In contrast to the
magician-cum-rapist, one encounters figures of eccentric holy monks. Often farcical, riotous or drunken, these monks are all the more licentious as they strive for holier goals. Some of them, like the famous Crazy Ji, are heroes of narratives which are generally pro-Buddhist. Some others, however are real Confucians clad in monkish robes and act as righters of the stray mores of their times, condemning monks and laymen alike. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2002_num_24_24_1153 |
