scholarly journals Scapegoating in ‘The Stranger’ By Albert Camus

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Diana-Eugenia Panait-Ioncică
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Stranger

Abstract The present paper intends to discuss the amount to which scapegoating (as understood by René Girard in ‘The Scapegoat’) can be applied to Camus’s novel ‘The Stranger’. While issues arise when we are trying to apply Girard’s definition of scapegoating to the famous novel by Camus, this paper shall try to prove that they are only apparent issues, and that the novel is a perfect illustration of Girard’s theory.

scholarly journals O esnobismo e o mecanismo do desejo em Morte em Veneza

Scriptorium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33207
Author(s):  
Antonio Barros de Brito Junior ◽  
Bianca Raupp Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Death In Venice

Este artigo pretende mostrar que o esnobismo é a possível causa da não concretização do romance entreAs- chenbacheTadzio, personagens do livro Morte em Veneza, de Thomas Mann. Analisando a personalidade de Aschenbacha partir dos postulados críticos de Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus e René Girard, concluímos que o esnobismo envolve o protagonista em uma relação triangular com os modelos literários clássicos, criando uma necessidade de transformar-se em obra de arte de si mesmo, e abdicando, assim, da ideia romântica da espontaneidade do desejo e da autossufici- ência do sujeito. Em última análise, apontamos para o fato de que essa obra de Thomas Mann incorpora o mecanismo do desejo mimético girardiano, evidenciando o paradoxo do dandismo e do esnobismo, que se mantém preso à ilusão romântico-platônica da originalidade, ainda que guiado pela mediação e pela imitação do mediador.*** Snobberyandthemechanicsofdesire in Death in Venice ***Thisarticlesuggeststhatthesnobberyisprobablythemainreasonwhythe romance betweenAschenba- chandTadzio, thecharactersof Thomas Mann’sDeath in Venice, does nothappen. The authorsanalysetheper- sonalityofAschenbachwiththe help ofthecriticworksof Charles Baudelaire, Albert Camus and René Girard onsnobberyanddandyism. ThispaperthensustainsthatthesnobberythatAschenbach displays hasto do withhisat- tempttocreate a workofartofhisown persona takingintoaccounttheartisticandliterarymodelsthat surround him. In sodoing, Aschenbachgoesagainsttheromanticideaof a completelyautonomouspersonalityanddesire. At last, thearticle points tothefactthatthe book embodiesthemimeticmechanismandpresentstheparadoxofdandyismandsnobbery, whichistotrytoholdtheromanticilusionoforiginality, beingdrivenbythemimicryofthemediatoratthesame time.Keywords:Snobbery; Dandyism; MimeticDesire; Thomas Mann; René Girard.

scholarly journals ‘Menzogna romantica’ e ‘sortilegio romanzesco’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piermario Vescovo
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Post War

This contribution attempts to match the dimensions of the ‘menzogna and sortilegio’ of Elsa Morante’s novel, and above all its construction in relation to the novel of the bourgeois epic of the previous century, those of the ‘mensonge romantique’ and ‘verité romanesque’ of René Girard, and therefore of describe the geometries of mimetic desire that build the plot of this huge debut in European post-war literature.

scholarly journals The influence of J.-P. Sartre’s philosophy on the mimetic theory of R. Girard

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Gafurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

Certainly Sartre had an enormous influence on the subsequent philosophical thought, primarily in France. Rene Girard did not ignore this thinker either. In this article we will look at the influence of Sartre’s philosophy on the formation of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. Already in his early work, “Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure”, Rene Girard repeatedly refers to the work of Sartre, explaining how his work can be considered in the context of mimetic theory. Further, in an interview with Michel Treger in 1992, Girard controversially proposes to examine the existential-phenomenological constructions of Sartre by means of mimetic theory, putting forward his vision and critical view on overcoming the Cartesian dualism that Girard finds in Sartre’s philosophy. The author of the article considers the convergence of the mimetic theory of R. Girard with some provisions of the work by J.-P. Sartre, turning to one of the main philosophical works of J.-P. Sartre “Being and Nothingness”, which also influenced the early work of R. Girard. It should be noted that J.-P. Sartre does not offer a system describing the mechanisms of mimetic desire. But through the prism of mimetic theory we can see certain philosophical intuitions that reveal to us the nature of mimetic desires in the works of Sartre.

Mimetic Desire in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot with Continual Reference to René Girard

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Denis Zhernokleyev
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Principal Character ◽  
Love Triangle

It is common to see Myshkin, the principal character of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, as a failed lover and a compassionate saintly figure, who gets entangled in a love triangle but cannot embody it. This paper challenges such a view and argues that Myshkin fully incarnates the violent dynamic of desire that governs the novel. With the help of René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire, the paper explores Myshkin’s relationship with Rogozhin as erotic rivalry. Instead of seeing the two characters as autonomous entities, it is suggested that they should be viewed as doubles, as two poles of the same consciousness. On this view, Myshkin’s compassion and Rogozhin’s lust become two different manifestations of the same desire, united by a conflict of interest, which drives the love triangle towards a violent resolution.

Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. René Girard

1967 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-54
Author(s):  
Ralph Harper
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

scholarly journals FRATRICIDE OR PATRICIDE –THE CRISIS OF PATRIARCHY IN THE NOVELS ĐUKA BEGOVIĆBY IVAN KOZARAC AND ZEMJABY ELIN PELIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Marijana Bijelić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Positions

Sincethe plots of the novels Đuka Begovićand Zemja(Land) by Elin Pelin are constructed around the ancient mythical murder motifs of patricide and fratricide, this analysis relies on mimetic theory by Rene Girard that is also constructed as a theoretical explanation of the afore mentioned mythical murders. Although Girard denies libidinal and object-directed causation of desire, in his polemics with the Freudian model of the libidinal desire Girard implies that there is a privileged object of desire in the patriarchal order –i.e. women because the father is the natural model for the son, and men’s desire for women is interindividually directed and intensified. Money and some other types of property are the privileged objects in a capitalist society –since thedesires of all members of the society are concentrated around them. The crisis of patriarchal order in Đuka Begovićcauses the loss of degree and the elevation of the structural positions of the father and the son, which then becomes the motive for Đuka’spatricide. On the other hand, the idealization and the persevered authority of the older brother causes Enjo’s repentance and the semi-establishing of the patriarchal order in the novel Zemja. The idealized older brother in the Pelin’s novel preserves thefunction of the paternal authority, and the father in Kozarac’s novel loses his authority and degree so he functions as the rival brother within the framework of the Girardian mimetic theory.

Why Meursault is an Outsider

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Webber
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
Human Tendency ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
The Stranger

This chapter presents an original analysis of The Outsider (also known as The Stranger), the novel Albert Camus published in 1942, as a meditation on absurdity and moral value that contains the seeds of the moral and political philosophy that Camus published in The Rebel in 1952, which Sartre famously responded to by accusing Camus of abandoning his philosophical principles. The chapter argues that The Outsider is profoundly opposed to existentialism, since it implies a natural human tendency to have genuinely other-regarding emotions. It is because Meursault lacks this aspect of human nature that he speaks and behaves in the disconnected, disinterested, depersonalized ways that define him as a narrator and as a character. Meursault comes to realize, by the end of the tale, that moral value is grounded in precisely this natural human fraternity that he himself lacks.

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