Le thème du double et la réécriture du mythe de l’androgyne dans / Orlanda / de Jacqueline Harpman

Abstract

Jacqueline Harpman’s Orlanda is a new look on the female representation; it reveals the story of an unsuccessful attempt to rise to the origins of androgynous unity of the human being, through the development of a fiction based on the Greek myth placed in a modern context. Orlanda, a tragic split character who has chosen to follow the Dionysian path and superficial way of life, becomes the figure of an effeminate male angel-demon who embodies the undecidable complexity of human personality, passions and social heritage. The failure waits for him at the end of that trip started in Parisian «gare du Nord», as it cannot be any real transgression in a world organized, often despite appearances, on genre bipolarity.

Keywords

• double
• androgynous
• sexual bipolarity
• matrophobia.