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Henning Nølke et al., « Le passé simple subjectivisé », Langue française, ID : 10.3406/lfr.2003.6483
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Henning Nølke et Michel Olsen: The french passé simple subjectivized Since Emile Benveniste, the French passé simple has largely been considered as a purely objective tense as opposed to the subjective imparfait. A study of literary examples reveals however that this form is likely to generate subjective interpretations in contexts where another mind (a guide person) is already present. A linguistic polyphonic description shows that this is what should be expected from this tense's linguistic properties. Our combined literary and linguistic analysis is outlined on a text from Madame Bovary.