A Genetic Study of the Femme Fatale in Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370372
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Kanto Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Ogane Atsuko 関東学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (50350541)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ギュスターヴ・フローベール / 『聖アントワーヌの誘惑』 / Rene de Saba / Femme fatale / fatalite / Notes de lecture / 草稿 / 生成研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The figure of ‘femmes fatales,’ which appears in Flaubert’s work The Temptation of Saint Anthony that he had called ‘the piece of my life’ and wrote three times, has influenced considerably the concept of romanticism and symbolism in the nineteenth century. In order to clarify the discrepancy of the structure and the formation of the figure of ‘femmes fatales’ in the three versions, we conceived the diplomatic transcriptions of the two hundred folios of the manuscript for the second version, as well as four notebooks for the preparation of the novel, and we reexamined the problematics of this concept and the theme of fatality.

Free Research Field

１９世紀フランス文学