Littérature et monde rural

Pierre Barral

Économie rurale, 1988, vol. 184, issue 1, 199-204

Abstract: [eng] Writers have often been inspired by country life. But the hierarchy according to which literary works are ranked by historians is not based on the same criteria as those used by literary critics. As important as Balzac's Paysans and Zola's La Terre, are second-rank novels by René Bazin and Ernest Pérochon. The historian can find there concrete data about weather, information about the techniques in use, remarks about social relations. Yet he must be careful about that kind of bias which is often caused by the quest for an artistical effect, and also pay attention to those ideological deviations which push the writer either to blacken or to embellish a crude reality. [fre] Si la campagne a souvent inspiré les écrivains, la hiérarchie de notre sujet n'est pas celle de la critique littéraire. Aux Paysans de Balzac et à La Terre de Zola, il faut joindre les œuvres de second rang, comme celles de René Bazin et d'Ernest Pérochon. L'historien peut y trouver des données concrètes sur le temps, des informations sur les techniques, des observations sur les rapports sociaux. Il doit toutefois se tenir en garde contre les déformations qu'entraîne la recherche d'un effet artistique, comme contre les déviations idéologiques, qui tantôt noircissent, tantôt embellissent la réalité brute.

Date: 1988
Note: DOI:10.3406/ecoru.1988.3913
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