1992
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Lucien Dällenbach, « Question de moule », Littérature, ID : 10.3406/litt.1992.2597
« Moule » in French designates, when feminine, the female genitalia, when masculine, a mold. This article explores how literary forms relate to « molds » through a variety of texts : Gautier' s Arria Marcella and Jensen's Gradiva. Proust's shell-shaped Madeleine, or Corinne' s vulva in La Route des Flandres. hiterary forms are as alive as their desire to se If -engender themselves from their own mold — to encounter la moule, be it called ptyx and engendered by form.