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Zola, de Schopenhauer à Malthus La Joie de vivre et la naturalisation de la charité

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal:
    Romanesques Revue du Cercll / Roman & Romanesque
    2015, n° 7
    . Récit romanesque et modèle économique
  • Author: Reffait (Christophe)
  • Abstract: Zola’s reflections on Schopenhauer’s pessimism in the novel La Joie de vivre correspond with the terms of Malthus’s thought in An Essay on the Principle of Population. On the one hand, a naturalism common to both Zola and Malthus exists. On the other, the Schopenhauerian charity staged in La Joie de vivre is directly opposed to Malthus’s recommendations, while pushing the model covered by Malthus’s law to its limits.
  • Pages: 251 to 270
  • Journal: Romanesques (Fictions)
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782812450129
  • ISBN: 978-2-8124-5012-9
  • ISSN: 2271-7242
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5012-9.p.0251
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 09-18-2015
  • Periodicity: Biannual
  • Language: French