TY - BOOK AU - Glaudes,Pierre TI - Passions as a mirror of art in Le Rouge et le Noir PY - 2015///. N1 - 37 N2 - In Le Rouge et le Noir, the works of art through which the characters picture their feelings are liable to reduce singular sentiments to mere clichés. However, they can also guide self-discovery, and thus provide a valuable emotional education. Finally, they can be the medium of a revelation when their paradigm scenarios, invested with desire, allow aspirations hitherto confused to seep into the conscious. The best use for such models proceeds from a connaturality of the erotic and the aesthetic, as passions find in art a language fit to express their nuances and potentialities UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-nouvelle-revue-d-esthetique-2014-2-page-17?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -