"Tomber dans le phenomene": Balzac's Optics of Narration

Goulet, Andrea

doi:10.1353/frf.2001.0029

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2001

DOI: 10.1353/frf.2001.0029

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"Tomber dans le phenomene": Balzac's Optics of Narration

Andrea Goulet¹

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“…This dialectic was enacted across the oeuvre of Balzac, a pioneer of both realist and visionary fiction. 4 Fantastic visual and musical arts produced similar perceptual displacements: familiar images or melodies gradually or suddenly metamorphosed into alien scenes and soundscapes.…”

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The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848

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The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848

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Retinal Fictions: Villiers, Leroux, and Optics at the Fin-de-siecle

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This essay connects Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's fantastic tale Claire Lenoir (1867/1887) and Gaston Leroux's detective story Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (1907) to contemporary debates in optical science. It argues that modern visual subjectivity is shaped less by photographic technologies than by new epistemological questions rooted in the anatomy of the eye. Both texts figure the retina as a troubled site of human knowledge through a link between domestic chambre and optical chamber: in Claire Lenoir, the purple-bordered wallpaper of Claire's hotel room exteriorizes the "retinal violet" of the eye's photochemistry, while in Leroux's tale, the central, mysterious "chambre jaune" reflects the retinal "tache jaune" debated in contemporary physiologies (AG)

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The Occult Roots of Realism: Balzac, Mesmer, and Second Sight

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2007

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"Tomber dans le phenomene": Balzac's Optics of Narration

Cited by 3 publications

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The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848

The Prophet and the Pendulum: Sensational Science and Audiovisual Phantasmagoria around 1848

Retinal Fictions: Villiers, Leroux, and Optics at the Fin-de-siecle

The Occult Roots of Realism: Balzac, Mesmer, and Second Sight

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