Amica America, une méditation sur Éros et Thanatos
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Cahiers Jean Giraudoux. Giraudoux critique, essayiste et témoin de son temps
2016, n° 44 - Author: Tatsopoulos (Hélène)
- Abstract: By way of Giraudoux’s Amica America, the article shows how the writer’s 1917 diplomatic mission doubled as a poetic mission, where he aimed to twin France with America, and to compensate for the destructive effects of Thanatos through this union and through the creation that springs from the vital impulse of Eros. Thus the writer manages to channel the emotional charge engendered by the war, and to conserve the hope “of seeing two great countries alter their aims and their function through simple benevolence.”
- Pages: 87 to 98
- Journal: Jean Giraudoux Studies
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782406063759
- ISBN: 978-2-406-06375-9
- ISSN: 2552-1004
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06375-9.p.0087
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 12-30-2016
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French