Gautier, Théophile | Rosemary Lloyd (essay date 1986)
Rosemary Lloyd (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Rereading Mademoiselle de Maupin" in Orbis Litterarum, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1986, pp. 19-32.
[Here, Lloyd examines the "underlying structures, the associated contrasts and parallels, and the cultural allusions" in Gautier's novel, Mademoiselle de Maupin, contending that traditional readings of the work which compare Gautier and d'Albert overlook the novel's complexity and tension.]
For Sainte-Beuve 'la Bible du romantisme', described by R. Jasinski in 1929 as an 'œuvre plus célèbre que connue', considered by P. Albouy 'le roman de la contradiction, de toutes les contradictions', seen by A. Bouchard as an `ouvrage pour le moins composite, qui a d'emblée déconcerté la critique', judged by M. Crouzet a 'roman misogyne et misoandre', and appearing to at least one of its readers as 'ce roman, ce conte, ce tableau, cette rêverie continuée avec l'obstination d'un peintre, cette espèce...
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