La Mare au Diable
La Mare au Diable ("The Devil's Pool") is an 1846 novel by George Sand.
Background
The novel is first in a series of four pastoral novels by Sand, based on her childhood; it was followed by François le Champi (1847–1848), La Petite Fadette (1849), and Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Doré (1857).[1]
Reception and legacy
The novel (specifically, its opening scene) is supposed to have been the inspiration for Rosa Bonheur's 1849 painting Ploughing in the Nivernais.[2][3]
Criticism
A contrasexual, queer reading of the novel was offered by James Hamilton, who suggested that, rather than see Germain as a projection of a male author, Marie could profitably be regarded as an ego-heroine; according to Hamilton, such a reading offers a better explanation of the title (and its explicit reference to a female element, water) and greater depth for Marie's two suitors.[4]
Translations
The novel has been translated into English seven times between 1847 and 2005, more than any other Sand novel.[5]
References
Notes
- ↑ Kristeva 35.
- ↑ D'Anvers 91.
- ↑ "Rosa Bonheur". The Literary Digest. 1 July 1899. pp. 9–10.
- ↑ Hamilton 73.
- ↑ Deane-Cox 57–58.
Bibliography
- D'Anvers, N. (1899). "Marie Rosalie Bonheur". Representative Painters of the XIXth Century. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. pp. 90–92.
- Deane-Cox, Sharon (2014). "On Shifting Sand: Relocating La Mare au Diable". Retranslation: Translation, Literature and Reinterpretation. Bloomsbury. pp. 57–78. ISBN 9781441154668.
- F. Hamilton, James (2007). "Gender Convergence in Sand's La Mare au Diable, a Contrasexual Reading". In James Day. Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Rodopi. pp. 73–86. ISBN 9789042022652.
- Kristeva, Julia (1993). "In search of Madeleine". Proust and the Sense of Time. Columbia UP. pp. 30–52. ISBN 9780231084789.
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