Usage du flou dans les romans du romantisme noir
Using Vagueness in Dark Romantic Novels

Summary/Abstract: In 2018, François Soulages published his third opus on vagueness: Le flou et la littérature, showing that vagueness in textual space opens up a way of interpreting “philosophical problems of the real, of subject/object relationships, of relationships to the world”. The novel of Gothic posterity in the nineteenth century, or dark romanticism, necessarily hybrid, seems to attest to this. From the generic vagueness to the ambiguity of the protagonist, the mise en abyme of the uncertain forces the reader to keep a proper distance from the text in order to better perceive the thinking of the time. Drawing on works from the 19th century such as Charles Nodier’s Jean Sbogar, we will consider how vagueness, from the imaginary construction to the ambiguity of the character, becomes a means of expressing and questioning reality.

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