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Journal Article
The Epistemology of the Mantelpiece: Subversive Ornaments in the Novels of Guy de Maupassant
2008
Overview
This article examines episodes from three novels by Guy de Maupassant, \"Notre Cœur\" (1890), \"Bel-Ami\" (1885), and \"Pierre et Jean\" (1888), and analyses how mantelpieces and ornaments become a privileged topos for the fictional investigation of epistemology and the phenomenon of disavowal. Through a parallel treatment of Maupassant and several texts of psychoanalysis, the article suggests a version of Maupassant which differs from critical representations of Maupassant as a pessimistic hater of the bourgeoisie. He emerges instead as ethically more ambiguous, and aware that a certain amount of disavowal is inevitable and indeed necessary in any given community.
Publisher
Maney Publishing,Modern Humanities Research Association
