Eat hearts.
Marguerite Waknine| N° d'inventaire | 23672 |
| Format | 16 x 21 |
| Détails | 52 p., notebook. |
| Publication | Angoulême, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094565506 |
The case is part of a long tradition in time and space, since specialists have not failed to note that the theme of the eaten heart has crossed the centuries and is found as far away as India and Siberia. Roughly speaking, we always find the same scenario:
a triangle, husband, wife, and her lover; deception, secrecy, suspicions, then discovery of the pot aux roses, finally revenge on the part of the husband who ensures that the lover's heart (and sometimes even his sex) is eaten by the adulterous woman. A strange phenomenon which reverses the courtly adventure into a misadventure of the first order. Moreover, and according to the principle of the same reversal, unlike the stories of the courtly adventure which take place in fabulous places, the stories collected in this volume are set in an everyday and much more prosaic reality. In any case, as if in a mirror, whether it may be an adventure or a misadventure, love always strikes the heart, bites it, tears it out, cuts it, crunches it and devours it, metaphorically or not. Here are four stories of eaten hearts, written between the 12th and 17th centuries, and even if the lovers each time have what is most dear to them devoured, their heart, and sometimes even more, these astonishing tales are nonetheless subtly delicious.
The case is part of a long tradition in time and space, since specialists have not failed to note that the theme of the eaten heart has crossed the centuries and is found as far away as India and Siberia. Roughly speaking, we always find the same scenario:
a triangle, husband, wife, and her lover; deception, secrecy, suspicions, then discovery of the pot aux roses, finally revenge on the part of the husband who ensures that the lover's heart (and sometimes even his sex) is eaten by the adulterous woman. A strange phenomenon which reverses the courtly adventure into a misadventure of the first order. Moreover, and according to the principle of the same reversal, unlike the stories of the courtly adventure which take place in fabulous places, the stories collected in this volume are set in an everyday and much more prosaic reality. In any case, as if in a mirror, whether it may be an adventure or a misadventure, love always strikes the heart, bites it, tears it out, cuts it, crunches it and devours it, metaphorically or not. Here are four stories of eaten hearts, written between the 12th and 17th centuries, and even if the lovers each time have what is most dear to them devoured, their heart, and sometimes even more, these astonishing tales are nonetheless subtly delicious.