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- Title: Invito Spectatore: Scenes of Love in the Lettre a D'alembert Sur Les Spectacles.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 192 KB
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"QU'ON nous peigne l'amour comme on voudra: il seduit, ou ce n'est pas lui," writes Rousseau in the Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles (V 51). (1) This punchy phrase sums up the main argument of one section of the Letter: the representation of love on stage always has the effect of seduction on the spectator. Rousseau further argues that theatrical seduction is always harmful, even if the love represented is innocent, and even if it is sacrificed to duty at the tragedy's end (V 47-48), because "l'effet d'une tragedie est tout a fait independant de celui du denouement" (V 50). In Rousseau's depiction of this state of affairs, there is no way for love's seduction to fail, and thus, no way for any other element of the tragedy to succeed in altering love's effect once it is in operation. As Elizabeth Wingrove notes, "in this theatricality is hardly distinguishable from romantic interaction" (43). Love's seduction seems as powerful from stage to spectator as from lover to beloved. The "romantic interaction" diagnosed in the Letter to d'Alembert, however, is not reserved solely for the stage: Rousseau's own autobiographical relations enter into the scene of the letter in a powerful way. While the reference to Diderot in the preface - creating the definitive and painful break of their friendship - is perhaps the most famous moment of Rousseau's personal interaction in the Letter, this break is only one part of the drama swirling around and within the text. Darach Sanfey and Ourida Mostefai have both written on the autobiographical aspects of the Letter as well as the circumstances of its writing, such as Rousseau's problems with Mme d'Epinay and Grimm on the one hand, and his problematic love for Mme d'Houdetot on the other. (2) To say that the drama at issue in the Letter is not solely that of stage or spectacle, then, is nothing new; both critics invoke Rousseau's personal drama, with Mostefai calling it a veritable "drame bourgeois" (CG 76).
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