Mots, couleurs et sens: la palette de Georges de Peyrebrune

Authors

  • Lydia De Haro Hernández
Keywords: Georges de Peyrebrune, 19th century French literature, literature and painting, ekphrasis, hypotyposis

Abstract

Reading Georges de Peyrebrune (1841-1917), we easily experience the feeling of going through the limits of paper, moving to the settings the author depicts so subtly in her works. The perfect control over colour and shade, gradation of light, the perspective and the presentation of shapes provide this novelist’s style with an undeniable pictorial character, awakening in the reader the illusion of visual. The aim of this paper is to show how literature and painting meet in Peyrebrune’s work and to refect on the reasons why this relationship takes place. In order to do so, we will analyse a series of extracts from works chosen due to their representative value, and then a particular short story will be studied, Dona Juana (1888), where light and colour take part masterfully, providing the text with rich symbolism.

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Published
11-02-2016
How to Cite
De Haro Hernández, L. (2016). Mots, couleurs et sens: la palette de Georges de Peyrebrune. Anales de Filología Francesa, 23, 233–248. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesff/article/view/250681