La peur dans l’œuvre d’Erckmann-Chatrian : du folklore au fantastique

Noëlle Benhamou

Abstract

Two inhabitants of Lorraine, named Emile Erckmann (1822–1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826–1890) – authors of numerous short stories inspired from local and Rhineland’s folklore – wrote fantastic stories in which fear and anxiety are given pride of place. All the ingredients of fear are present – ghosts, apparitions, magnetism, lycanthropia, murders, violent deaths, miscarriages of justice. Would this subtle mixture of folklore and fantastic have a didactic, even
metaphysical aim?

Key words : fear, fantastic, ghost, short story, didactics, metaphysics

Citation rules

Benhamou, N. La peur dans l’œuvre d’Erckmann-Chatrian : du folklore au fantastique. Romanica Silesiana, 11(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/5992

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2016)
Published:


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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