The desire for disobedience: Temptation and sedition in Jacques Cazotte’s Le Diable amoureux
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2021.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Cazotte’s Le Diable amoureux, which borrows from the codes of sentimental banter and diabolical temptation, is as much a light and fantastic comedy as a disturbing moral drama. It is a drama where the passion of Belzebuth serves only to reflect Alvare’s sole desire to be obeyed in all matters and so as to be better able to disobey the very desire of his mother, the respectable Dona Mencia. But if infernal desire is at first opposed here to the hell of duty, it is only for them both to be reunited in the end – devilry obliges – into one slavish passion where the devil never appears more fearsome than when it is the zealous supporter of love and its rules.
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Cazotte’s Le Diable amoureux, which borrows from the codes of sentimental banter and diabolical temptation, is as much a light and fantastic comedy as a disturbing moral drama. It is a drama where the passion of Belzebuth serves only to reflect Alvare’s sole desire to be obeyed in all matters and so as to be better able to disobey the very desire of his mother, the respectable Dona Mencia. But if infernal desire is at first opposed here to the hell of duty, it is only for them both to be reunited in the end – devilry obliges – into one slavish passion where the devil never appears more fearsome than when it is the zealous supporter of love and its rules.
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