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Féerie pour un scandale : l’art et la morale dans Lolita (1958) de Vladimir Nabokov On the poetical uses of moral outrage in Lolita (1958) by Vladimir Nabokov

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Author(s)
Jacques Sohier
Keywords
art et moralité
au-delà du bien et du mal
moralisme
principe horacien d’instruction
justice poétique
éthicisme
art pour l’art
formalisme de V. Nabokov
beauté formelle
censure
pornographie
credo moderniste
théorie de la lecture
lecteur et transgression
panique morale
Humbert Humber (la rhétorique spécieuse de)
poétique de la perversion
surmorale de l’œuvre et la liberté du lecteur
modernism
Wilde Oscar
art and morality
beyond good and evil
moralism
Horace’s principle of instruction
poetic justice
ethicism
art for art’s sake
Nabokov’s formalism
formal beauty
censorship
pornography
theory of reading
reader and the representation of transgression
moral panic
Humbert Humbert’s specious reasoning
freedom of reading and taboos
XXe siècle
20th century
United States
Etats-Unis
Philosophy (General)
B1-5802
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
B
DOAJ:Philosophy
DOAJ:Philosophy and Religion
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
Social Sciences
H
DOAJ:Sociology
DOAJ:Social Sciences
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/609630
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https://doaj.org/article/d51099762736498a93b6f97d411e6d07
Abstract
L’apothéose morale du personnage narrateur Humbert Humbert consiste en une mise en récit d’actes transgressifs, la pédophilie et l’inceste. Comment réconcilier l’art et la morale ? Dans la préface de Lolita, V. Nabokov pose, par l’entremise du préfacier fictif John Ray, un regard ambigu où le moralisme et le scientisme du clinicien s’entremêlent. Dans la postface rédigée par V. Nabokov, l’auteur revendique ouvertement ses choix esthétiques et affirme que Lolita n’est pas porté par une intention morale. La lecture détaillée de la postface révèle un auteur en butte au scandale qui éclate. Les choix poétiques sont donc explicités. La jouissance esthétique propre à l’art transcende ainsi le moralisme. V. Nabokov fait montre d’un formalisme rigoureux qui met en avant la pureté de l’art et son hétéronomie. Un mouvement dialectique fait vaciller les assises morales du lecteur confronté à l’immoralité du texte. Les arguments spécieux du narrateur font de Lolita un chef-d’œuvre de casuistique. Lolita propose au lecteur une surmorale qui trouve à s’exercer dans le sanctuaire de l’art.<br>The moral apotheosis of the narrator-character Humbert Humbert consists in the narrative of transgressive acts like pedophilia and incest. How is it possible for the writer first, and then the reader, to reconcile art and morality? In the preface to Lolita, V. Nabokov impersonates the fictive John Ray and looks at transgression with both a moral and clinical intent. In the postface to the novel written by V. Nabokov himself, the writer affirms his aesthetics and claims that his novel has no moral in tow. A close reading of this preface shows a writer on the defensive in the face of a persisting scandal. Poetical options are carefully explained to the reader. Thus aesthetic bliss comes foremost transcending moralism. Nabokov shows himself a rigorous formalist insisting on the purity of art and its disconnection from ethics. A dialectic defending perversion causes the reader to shake in his/her moral foundation. The specious reasoning of the narrator makes Lolita a masterpiece of casuistry. Lolita creates a utopia beyond good and evil where the freedom of the reader can find in the sanctuary of art the proper place to exercise itself.
Date
2010-02-01
Type
Article
Identifier
oai:doaj.org/article:d51099762736498a93b6f97d411e6d07
10.4000/lisa.3249
1762-6153
https://doaj.org/article/d51099762736498a93b6f97d411e6d07
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