La Madone des Sleepings ou le kitsch des annees folles

Author(s)

  • Caroline Gondaud

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/relief.907

Keywords:

irony, Giraudoux, kitsch, Années folles, lightness

Abstract

A stylistic analysis of the novel highlights its rhetorical inflation and its way of imitating Giraudoux’s aesthetics, but it also shows an ironical dimension. This article proposes to demonstrate that La Madone des Sleepings is a typical kitsch product of the so-called Années folles, made of overcharge and (unbearable) lightness. 

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Published

2015-06-22

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): La Madone des Sleepings by Maurice Dekobra

Section

Articles - thematic dossier

License

All articles published in RELIEF appear in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Under this licence, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their article, but they allow its unrestricted use, provided it is properly cited.

How to Cite

“La Madone des Sleepings ou le kitsch des annees folles” (2015) RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 9(1), pp. 68–76. doi:10.18352/relief.907.