Le rôle de l’image dans Le Cimetière de Prague

• Main Author: Mohamed Bernoussi
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés 2018-07-01
• Series: Cahiers de Narratologie
• Subjects: Prague Cemetery; Antisemitism; 19th Century; the power of the image; Intentio Operis
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/8252

If, in a novel like The Last Flame of Queen Loana, the image is used both in a relevant and happy way to show how Umberto Eco conceives, the subject and its memory, in The Cemetery of Prague, it, memory, is problematic, because it is not always in harmony with the textual strategy of the model author. This is so because the numerous illustrations out of which is composed the novel are meant to fulfill their usual role, but a mindful (an attentive) reading shows that these illustrations entertain with the verbal text complex relationships and raise many questions concerning the author's intention, that of his work and its reception.