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1996
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Anny Sadrin, « Le cri de l'écarlate », Interfaces. Image-Texte-Langage (documents), ID : 10.3406/inter.1996.1053
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This essay, partly based on Bachelard's theory of associationism, offers three illustrations of the cruel connotations of the word "red", often suggestive of blood (blood that is shed, "cruor", as opposed to "sanguis" in Latin). The association with rubies and poppies can also connote sexual perversity, sadism and masochism. The three texts chosen are a scene from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, a passage from Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, and Angela Carter's short story, The Bloody Chamber.