LE TOPOS DE LA MATER DOLOROSA DANS UN RÉCIT DE SYLVIE GERMAIN
LE TOPOS DE LA MATER DOLOROSA DANS UN RÉCIT DE SYLVIE GERMAIN

Summary/Abstract: The articles analyses La Pleurante des rues de Prague by Sylvie Germain by taking into account the use of a famous topos in Christian culture, mater dolorosa. This example of poetic prose describes the twelve appearances of a fabulous female character dwelling in Prague. Immaterial, but visible, huge, with a limping left foot, the heroine bears the suffering of the whole humanity and tries to console it. As the eternal Mother of human sorrow, she suggests and at the same time surpasses Virgin Mary through the concept of personal and collective memory. In this text, the duty people do by commemorating the victims of History and the anonymous people who remain disconsolate blends with the heroine’s vocation for being the intercessor between two worlds which do not communicate much: God’s world and people’s world.

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