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Les Scènes de la vie privée ou le regard interdit
Author(s) -
Baron AnneMarie
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0730.2000.d01-27.x
Subject(s) - pleasure , narrative , humanities , space (punctuation) , art , blindness , field (mathematics) , aesthetics , philosophy , psychology , literature , medicine , linguistics , optometry , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics
The pre‐cinematographic conception of space in Balzac leads us to predict the distinction made by Eric Rohmer between pictorial and architectural space or between ‘entre champ’ and ‘hors‐champ’. In Scènes de la vie privée there is a permanent play on private space as an accessible ‘hors‐champ.’ The difficulties exasperate the desire and pleasure of looking while also increasing its fascination. Balzac's narrative strategy can be defined as a prefiguration of the filmic relationship between a field of vision and a field of blindness with the effect of a valorisation of fantasmatic objects, most often the female body.