L’Homme-toupie. Le vagabond comme figure de la subversion dans Le Ventre de Paris d’Émile Zola

• Rachwalska von Rejchwald, Jolanta ^[1]
  1. [1] Université Marie-Curie Sklodowska
• Localización: Quêtes littéraires, ISSN-e 2657-487X, ISSN 2084-8099, Nº. 4, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Sur les traces du vagabond), ISBN 978-83-63527-65-5, págs. 28-37
• Idioma: francés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Spinning-top man. Vagabond as a personification of social order’s subversion in Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zola
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  • A vagrant Florent Quenu serves as a methaphor of social-political shift that strikes France in the late XIX-th century. Intimidated by the magnitude of change, upon his return Florent wanders the streets, meanders and strolls in circles which casts a horrendous contradiction with the austerity of Hausmann’s new Paris, aligned with omnipresent straight line forms. This geometrical collision of a straight line and a curve is symptomatic of ferocious conflict between the Second Empire and the alternative social model embodied in the Florent’s attitude.