Modeste and Mignon: Balzac rewrites Goethe
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- French Studies [ 0016-1128 ] ; 2005-07.
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- Auber, Balzac, Briere, Canalis, Cette, Ctional, Ctional song, Daniel auber, French reader, French studies, French translations, Gazette musicale, Goethe, Hanska, Hippolyte chelard, Incestuous union, Inner life, Ironic commentary, Katharine ellis, Kennst, Lehrjahre, Lyric imagination, Madame hanska, Meister, Meisters, Mignon, Mignon story, Modeste, Modeste mignon, Musical score, Natalie, Other hand, Oxford university press, Poetic imagination, Roger pierrot, Same time, Sexual politics, Social world, Tasso, Terence, Terence cave, Theatrical illusion, Torquato tasso, Vertus positives, Walter peveril, Wilhelm, Wilhelm meister, Wilhelm meisters lehrjahre, Xavier marmier, Young woman.
Abstract
Amid the many literary intertexts of Balzac's Modeste Mignon (1844), the works of Goethe play a key role. Modeste's first name contains a coded reference to Torquato Tasso, while her family name is borrowed from the Mignon of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Because Modeste is in many ways quite unlike Mignon, this latter reference has generally been regarded as marginal, but it can be shown that Balzac consciously plays off the Bildungsroman of his poetic but in the end solid and capable heroine against Goethe's ill-fated personification of lyrical poetry. Central to this parallel is the scene in which Modeste improvises a setting of her favourite poem by the poet she thinks she is in love with: unusually, the score (composed at Balzac's request by Daniel Auber) is printed consecutively with the narrative. This song transposes into a new literary, musical and social context Mignon's celebrated ‘Kennst du das Land?’. Modeste Mignon thus appears as both a specifically French mutation of the Mignon story and an ironic commentary on its Romantic implications.
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