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| - | The article is centred around what its author calls the “tacit pact of the autobiographical novel”: in the course of the narration of an episode in a historical figure’s life a hypothetical truth is revealed that seems to be both plausible and impossible. The novel attempts to fill a biographical gap. On one hand, the story’s plausibility aims to convince the reader of the correctness of the events that are told. On the other hand, the author creates, implicitly, a certain distance, thus indicating that the entire text is to be read as a fiction. In this dialectic between verisimilitude and impossibility biographical fiction, which risks at any moment to slide into vagueness, becomes legitimate. In light of this “pact” Jan Herman analyzes Joke Hermsen’s recent novel, ''De liefde dus'' (2008), which focuses on a mysterious episode in Isabelle de Charrière’s life. | + | Her name was Isabelle van Tuyll (or more precisely Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken), but she preferred to be known as Belle de Zuylen; other names she used, or which were used to des-ignate her by friends, were Zélide and Agnès; after her marriage she would often sign herself as Tuyll de Charrière and in her later writings she used the pseudonym “Abbé de la Tour”. The present article sug-gests that a study of these different names is relevant to an understanding of Belle’s search for identity and to her intellectual and moral itinerary from her early aggressive optimistic rationalism to the more moderate views expressed in her later correspondence and imaginative writings. |
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| - | *Publications > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Cahiers_Isabelle_de_Charriere_/_Belle_de_Zuylen_Papers Belle de Zuylen Papers] > 2013<br><br> | + | *Publications > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Cahiers_Isabelle_de_Charriere_/_Belle_de_Zuylen_Papers Belle de Zuylen Papers] > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/Submission_of_proposals_is_possible_also 2013] > Courtney<br><br> |
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Le pacte tacite du roman biographique
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Her name was Isabelle van Tuyll (or more precisely Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken), but she preferred to be known as Belle de Zuylen; other names she used, or which were used to des-ignate her by friends, were Zélide and Agnès; after her marriage she would often sign herself as Tuyll de Charrière and in her later writings she used the pseudonym “Abbé de la Tour”. The present article sug-gests that a study of these different names is relevant to an understanding of Belle’s search for identity and to her intellectual and moral itinerary from her early aggressive optimistic rationalism to the more moderate views expressed in her later correspondence and imaginative writings.
SvD, January 2014
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