Exercises in Style, pastiche and mixtures
"Style is the man himself" , Buffon
Object of study: the novel and its characters, visions of man and the world
READ: a comparative reading of two places.
Compare the description of the laundry Gervaise: before and after degradation of the character.
WRITE: contrasting descriptions of the same place.
On your turn, describe a place: before and after processing.
The changes will not necessarily negative.
THE ART OF DESCRIPTION: portrait
READ : A comparative reading of two portraits of the same person.
Compare the two portraits of Father Goriot early novels of Balzac and analyze how changing social status of the eponymous hero is shown by the deterioration of his physical appearance and lifestyle (the description of the body, dress, diet and housing: the symbolic passage from 2nd to 3rd floor of the pension Vauquer), the reactions of those around him.
WRITE: composition of two contrasting portraits of the same person.
On your turn, compose a double portrait diptych "in the manner of Balzac." You might find the subject invention FAE 2008: describe a character that the narrator has experienced much younger and contrast this description of the image he had kept to that which occurs in his eyes when he tells the meeting.
The observed changes are not necessarily signs of degradation: the character described may have evolved positively.
YEARS OF STYLE, pastiche and blending incipits From the novels of the nineteenth century, rewrite the incipit of Girl with the golden eyes of Balzac "how to" Stendhal, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola.
from a WRITE IMAGE: Photograph a corner of Paris to begin setting up the scene of the novel collective training "generational" the 2nd 4 (theme: the coming of the young poet schoolboy "literature" in his city, his encounters with art and artists, the society of his time) .
Then write the opening words of the Bildungsroman "generational" the 2nd 4 ...
"All is true" ...
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Exercises in Style, pastiche and mixtures
"Style is the man himself" , Buffon
"Proust take particular pleasure to imitate the writers to whom he dedicates the greatest admiration, including Balzac and Flaubert, if exercised, to consciously control their influence on him, exorcise it somehow: "Making a pastiche voluntary , order after that, again original do not do all his life unintentional pastiche. "Long after pastiche Flaubert, Proust will experience again the need to look at his style, but this time as a critical article, as he explains: " Our mind is never satisfied if he could not give a clear analysis of what he had first unconsciously produced or a living recreation of what he had patiently analyzed first. " Edmund White, Marcel Proust, p. 56 (see Proust, and mixtures Pastiches : " The case Lemoine , I - In a novel Balzac )
pastiche ( write "how to" ): Is not this the best way to understand a text better , to feel it?
"Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible" , Paul Klee ( "sensitive" ?)
Pastiche: You will write the opening words of a novel "the way" Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac and Flaubert, Maupassant and Zola.
Pastiche: you tell, like Chateaubriand, one of your travels (real or imaginary)
ROMANTICISM : Chateaubriand's phrase
How the composition of this sentence translated it daydreaming?
Analyze the rhythm of the sentence: what contribution does the text register?
"It would take too long to recount the best trips I took with my flower of love: how to hand to hand, we visited the famous ruins, Venice, Rome, Athens, Jerusalem, Memphis, Carthage, how we crossed the seas, we asked how to palm the happiness of Otaheite, in the balmy groves of Ambon and Tiddor, how, at the top of the Himalya we would wake the dawn, how we descended the holy river whose waves spread around the pagodas on golden balls, how we slept on the banks of the Ganges, while the Bengali, perched on the mast of a bamboo basket , sang his Indian Barcarolle. "
Chateaubriand, Memoires d'outre- falls, I, 3, 12, 1850 (posthumous)
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