La préfiguration de la société liquide de Zygmunt Bauman dans l’œuvre romanesque et théâtrale d’Octave Mirbeau

• Autores: Lisa Rodrigues Suarez
• Localización: Studi francesi, ISSN 0039-2944, Nº. 185, 2018, págs. 251-258
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • In 2017 we commemorate the centenary of Octave Mirbeau’s death, a writer and journalist who has had a deep impact on French literature and history in the end of nineteenth century. 2017 is also the year of Zygmunt Bauman’s death, a Polish sociologist and philosopher who was one of the world’s leading representatives of the Postmodern Current. Thus, the timing seems to be propitious for the establishment of some parallels between those two great figures of the critical thinking and social criticism, who both have seen in a lucid and discerning way the perils of their time. The world has changed significantly since the end of nineteenth century and yet the universe imagined by Mirbeau more than a hundred years ago resembles the one in which we live in 2017. Whether it is in the disillusioned way he considers progress, in his perpetual denunciation of all the institutions that enslave the individual or his warning against the dangers of a society where only by consumption one integrates the social tissue, all his life he strives to stir people’s consciences. Wishing to induce a sense of responsibility in his contemporaries, he doesn’t hesitate to create a universe where the violence is aesthetic and spectacular, as it is the case in his subversive novel The Torture Garden. The world he created has a profound resonance today and finds an echo in Zygmunt Bauman’s considerations.