Roman et censure : le cas du Gascon extravagant

Abstract

Novel and Censorship : the case of the Gascon extravagant : Le Gascon extravagant allows us to view from an original angle the relationship between the novel and censorship. Claireville’s discursive and narrative strategies aim less to get around than to denounce the principle of institutional repression. Like Cyrano’s L’Autre Monde or Dassoucy’s Aventures, Le Gascon extravagant confirms Louis Marin’s argument that in the seventeenth century the real power of narrative would be its ability to entrap power itself.

Keywords

• censorship
• comic
• libertinism
• first person narrative
• psychoanalysis
• novel