Baudelaire Vampirizes Racine

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• 作者：Roderick Cooke
• 关键词：Baudelaire ; Racine ; Religion ; Sexuality ; Transgression ; Vampire
• 刊名：Neophilologus
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：101
• 期：1
• 页码：39-52
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Historical Linguistics; Comparative Linguistics; Philology; Comparative Literature; Syntax;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8668
• 卷排序：101

文摘

Beginning from an underexplored intertextual link between Baudelaire’s poem ‘Les Métamorphoses du Vampire’ and Racine’s play Athalie, I argue that the contrast between the two works underlines the fundamental conjunction between religion and sexuality in Les Fleurs du Mal. Transgression, in both the religious and sexual spheres, is an engine of literary creation for Baudelaire, and ‘Les Métamorphoses du Vampire’ operates in both at once. The analysis is supported by a set of readings of other poems from Les Fleurs du Mal, along with the poem’s allusions not only to Athalie but also to the Bible. ‘Les Métamorphoses du Vampire’ enacts a scene of divine punishment for both blasphemy and fornication, yet as this punishment is visited on the vampire, the poet loses the text. This differentiates Baudelaire’s view of religion from Racine’s hidden God, and also connects the poem to the wider themes of Les Fleurs du Mal, expressed in ‘Au Lecteur’ and revisited throughout.