Marivaudage
In literary studies up to the 19th century, Marivaudage was a “graceful, screwed and antithetically pointed” writing style. This type of expression goes back to the French writer Pierre Carlet de Marivaux (1688–1763).
Even during Marivaux's lifetime, his reviewers (not the public) dismissed his language and psychological analyzes as marivaudage . In 1786 the writer La Harpe rebuked in Lycée (vol. I, vol. V, part 5), Marivaux 'style as " le mélange le plus bizarre de métaphysique subtile et de locutions triviales, de sentiments alambiqués et de dictons populaires ". Like the first préciosité, this "nouvelle préciosité" was ridiculated between 1720 and 1730, of which Marivaux was the most productive representative, initially in a dictionnaire néologique by Desfontaines, 1726. In the course of the revaluation of the roco literature , Marivaux and the marivaudage were at least valued as witty flirting. As the Marivaux researcher Frédéric Deloffre has shown, the marivaudage was more: a radically new style that, in view of the likewise newly recognized inadequacy of language, wanted to appear suggestive and possessed analytical power.
swell
- ^ Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 11, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 259.
literature
- Frédéric Deloffre: Une préciosité nouvelle, Marivaux et le marivaudage. Etude de langue et de style . Société d'Édition les Belles Lettres, Paris 1955.
- Christoph Miething: Marivaux . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1979, ISBN 3-534-07597-8 .