| Titre | « Ce qui donne pointe à la sauce » : désir et délire sécuritaire dans Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov | |
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| Auteur | Joseph Urbas | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 79, janvier 1999 L'Amérique du Nord existe-t-elle ? | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Hors thème |
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| Page | 18 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
Desire, which stirs the passions of hope and fear, also remains under constant threat of extinction by their extremes - security and despair. Such, in broad terms, is the analysis Descartes presents in Les Passions de l'âme (1649), an analysis that arguably affords a great deal of insight into the dynamics of desire in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. In a profoundly disturbing twist, Humbert Humbert's obsession with security, more than a mere symptom of his perversion, turns out to be an general tendency of desire as such. Consistent with the Cartesian model, the desiring subjects of Lolita - character, narrator, writer, and reader alike - are thus torn between the imperatives of security and a passion that would throw caution to the winds. Safety first or safety last ? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1999_num_79_1_1760 |
