Through a circular time: "ennui" and time in "La Regenta" and "Madame Bovary"

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  • Sonia Núñez Puente Vanderbilt University

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.19999-105734

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Through a circular time: ennui and time in La Regenta and Madame Bovary

Abstract

During the second half of the nineteenth century a new philosophical-oriented phenomenon emerges: the ennui embodied in the feminine character. The issue of the ennui is brought up at the center of a new sense of temporality. Time is conceived as a kind of circular construction leading, invariably, to boredom as represented in the femenime figure. Leopoldo Alas "Clarín" and Gustave Flaubert in La Regenta and Madame Bovary create a prototype which exemplifies the ennui's corrosive nature in the Nineteenth Century European literature.

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1999-12-01

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Núñez Puente, S. (1999). Through a circular time: "ennui" and time in "La Regenta" and "Madame Bovary". Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 9-10, 313-336. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.19999-105734