The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2008  
         
  Article:   “I AM THE AUTHOR OF HER MASTERY OF ME” OU LES BAS-FONDS DU DIDACTISME. TYRANNIE DU SAVOIR ET JALOUSIE DE LA JEUNESSE DANS LA LEÇON D’E. IONESCO ET THE DYING ANIMAL DE P. ROTH / TEACHING DEEP DOWN. TYRANNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND JEALOUSY OF YOUTH IN THE LESSON (E. IONESCO) AND THE DYING ANIMAL (P. ROTH).

Authors:  VALÉRIE DESHOULIÈRES. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Teaching Deep Down. Tyrannical Knowledge and Jealousy of Youth in The Lesson (E. Ionesco) and the Dying Animal (P. Roth). Cleverly concealed or clearly expressed, imaginary or real, eroticism is often mixed with teaching, as George Steiner emphasized in Lessons of the Masters (Maîtres et disciples, Gallimard, 2004). When he’s talking about literature, teacher is not only speaking to his audience’s intelligence, but also to his sensibility. Deliberate or accidental, attraction he generally exerts can become a nuisance, if many years separate master from disciple. In both books that we want to compare: The Dying Animal by P. Roth and The Lesson by E. Ionesco, Yeat’s poetry, on the one hand, and philology, on the other hand, only hide love. In this case, lessons are based on a mixing of desire and sadism, humiliation and release. And "the age’s mirror" drives to hypnosis, madness and finally murder.

Keywords: master, disciple, old age, youth, eroticism, sadism. 

 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page