Title: | Don Juan de Tirso a Apollinaire: le pecheur devenu seducteur amoureux |
Author: | Lavinia Similaru |
Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, IX (1) |
p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
Place: | Târgoviște |
Year: | 2011 |
Abstract: | The Sévillan seducer was born in the play Le trompeur de Seville, attributed to Tirso. Although he enjoyed a great literary success, for he has inspired and tempted the imagination of many writers of genius to finally conquering the literary scene, occurring in almost all literatures, the original author was probably forgotten. Torso’s protagonist is a young and charming rogue. Tells lies to women so that they fall in love with him. However, he is not too imaginative as he uses only two ways to deceive women. With the aristocratic ones, he passes as somebody else, as the one they have always been waiting for. As for poor women, he promises them wonderful marriages. It is disappointing, but the first Don Juan has seduced no woman. Kierkegaard rightly observed that we must cautiously use the word seducer when talking about Don Juan. Tirso might not have wanted to embody a seducer, but to show the public a sinner who deserves his punishment. It’s three hundred years since Tirso’s play to Apollinaire’s novel. Since then, the authors have made of Don Juan the seducer we know today. Apollinaire’s novel presents an obvious intertextuality with Spanish plays and Moliere’s. |
Key words: | Literature, myth, sinner, seducer, Spanish |
Language: | French |
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