Haddock et le contenu alcoolique de l’aventure

• Main Author: Cristina Álvares
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2020-05-01
• Series: Carnets
• Subjects: character; adventure; sphere; substance; form
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/11111

This abstract examines in Les Aventures de Tintin the morphology of the heroic figure composed by two characters, Tintin and Haddock, and aims to describe the tension that fosters it. Taking as a starting point the elements that compose their favourite drinks, water and fire, and believe that the protagonist and his friend represent the two faces of the hero: the pure form of Tintin, a character with no content nor container, and the toxic substance that Haddock brings to the adventure with no intention to hold it back. Our theoretical perspective comes from Sloterdijk’s spherology and its main notions of insulation, sphere and foam.