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    Colorado College Interlibrary Loan reuied rw: 4606 [MUTANT utes Borrower: COS, calf; Shelved under Nineteonth- Century French Studies Landing String: °C0C,COF.COVILUISM Location: 2nd Floor-Periodicals Patron: Flor Maia Retguer Arenas Journal Tie: Nineteenth-century French studies. ARIEL. Volume: 29 Issue: 1-2 Moree FM Montnear: 2000 08 O1Pages: 47 ‘Shipping Adaross: UNIVERSITY UBRARY ILL Article Author: Pol, S ren ‘COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY-PUESLO 2200 BONFORTE BOULEVARD Article Tie: ‘Panoramic Realm; An Eary and PUEBLO, CO 81001 Iuetatve Passage fom Urban Space to Media ‘Space inHonor de Bats Person Nowes, Fax: Ferragus andLePre Go ‘Ae: 19255220.254 Imprint: (Lincoln, NE, oe, Unversty of Nebrask tue in Balpae Howarth, TED. Cioran: The Lf of Lous Pipe King of he Frech Tondo pe & Spotiwande, 96 ante, Proje, Coombe Pac GE-Faarion, 19% A Gorepandance pn 2 Ses 1 alae Ed. Mase Partai. Fit ees ace Dhan, 14h Second wis Toulouse: Edouard Pv 1955, Mickaen, Devi “Apencis Sind and Msgs, Endogamy te open” Prk Lire Sie 23 (198) 12942. Pay, Fame: "Nether Blk nor Wie am Inrcettion of Taman, Frewh ene Se 2199): 673 Poynter. “Clos es mleamorphoe un st de rman” Nowe "Rome det des mindy 196) 9036 Rat A W. Per Main New York: Cat Sie Son, 1970 Sine-Beoe CA. de. "Ena mr Lt gure wc pat M.Promper Misi Colm” Rea de dus monde 28 7-90. Salomon, Pe “Pifa” in Clb by Prosper Mls Pai: GF aaron, Stee, Hos Susan &: One Ronald 8. Ong. L Cation fancier. Boston: Hine Hen 198 45 comp crppee Panoramic Realism [SPACE IN HONORE DE BALZAC'SFARSIAN NOVELS, PoARAGUS AND Le PBR Is realm up-to-date? How can cai els be reconsidered in our contemporary media turted age, and how can tel ws formate ey ‘nse the challenges by ew mada With hee question on my min willockt how the urban space ofa aintenthcemury Pars andan tly ‘erson of mediaspac, th panorama chlengeand further te development ‘th elit novel. My am sto obtain teary istril perspective on our ‘urrentmediarevalaton andi investigate how the novel arrested oearer ‘mediareroutions asthe computer and be Internets not the fist nor maybe ‘ren the most threstening challenge the novel has answered. wil oes o Pais the "Par constrced in Honor de Balas novel fiom the 1830 and 1840, terary "Paris tht forms the bass oflater trary descriptions ofthe city Tn order to do thi 1 wl take a look at vo novel, aragas (183) fom the collection Histoire des rei in which Balzac ay te foundation of he moder urban novel an Le Pre Gort (1835) in which onsrucs fom ths « modem Bidexpreman ot description of manners (Cétudedemecurs"abouthe difiultesofayoung"parven,”Rastgns eho sferarivingin Parsatemptsto navigate among tbe Parisian elit with isgeat “ambitions of obtaining» positon and lve. Feragucan rome extent be regurdedasanovel ht investigate ameworkofenew percption ofurben relly, one hts ater developedint the major Bldunproman, Le Pore Grist. ‘AsTshal demonstrat bot ofthe novel deal with elossof perspective and the ls of comprehensive view facing the modern metropolis. Bu thy ako signiieniy mount panocamic view of modem Pari st thee concarions. (One could eu be lead to conclude that these endings are ironic or even sancti considering the general epistemological and perceptonal cris inset Crane Preheat, Nex 2 abn 20200147 described in the novels. However, these panoramic views have 2 specific fantom given te historical context ofthe medi ofthe panorama, ad the ‘novels can thse ead as ea examples of how novels can react to and reflect {pon the los of reat crested by moder medi In his sense the novels tll the ror of how and why moder mas meda and our meted rely came into blag, and, scen fom thethreshod of xr modern mediated oie, they ‘ren offer an important example of crite erry reflection onthe med. erp and Le Pie Goro sppese time when the perception of urban reality reaches criss caused by the fc that round 1620-1830 Pari ated to become 2 modem, dyoamic and laceasing'y complex metropolis A development feed bythe ey, booming bourgeois capital daring he Restoration andthe July Monarchy. In shor, Balzac shows that Paris as ‘becomeso lage andvo filed wth rfc that it challengestaditonal pereption snd ells for new forms of pecepon and perspective tthe mete, a srban mass conciousness begining to take shape, andthe visual cy i doubled ina sytem of sgn with many diferent eee of manifestation a for Instance in everyay tl nd gaip,where"on ne crotaien dec quley di tonne dit en de equi $y ft (Balzac, 3: 175) as wel a inthe env onrent, hat Bala characterises is ls famous Avent ropa, athe fat hat "Thorame [| tend a epésenter ser morass pnat te da tout ce qilepproptie sesbesine (1:3). ‘Consequently, the urban man both markshis surroundings andismarkedby them. Feragas has long inoduction describing the sees and quarters of Par, ving them human characterise. Te Becomes cle that the cy i tnthropomerphised, while atthe ame time people become uibanized or determinedly ther suroondingswhichseresaaterttht cannot voiding read: “Enfi les usd Parisont ds qultts humains. enous mpriment pr lear physionomiecersnesdes conte legos now sommes san dense” (739), Farapsisthuse Paisannovelinthesensethattcan bread aronestempt toreadthisphysiognomictet out ofthe citys topographyandtowriteit down {in the form of novel On the next fw pags the narrator notes that a Tue pul” (5.794 andhe calls Paria vile ox centile romans” (5795) Later ‘when the pltisinttedtheppensnthe labyrinthine Maaieqarte, andthe syntax ofthe usagi which hse describe iat coincidently ering ‘isthe narrators ing pate through the narrow teeta? All this ola toward reading Ferapu ata novel which athe same tine reads and ris the ext of Parisien fj sing Pars asabackgroundor 48 som na seting it transforms Parisian space into its own novelitic space. Hen ‘Miterand reaches 2 simile concuton in his aaa ofFevape' tae of ParinspceLe roman, depuis Bala tou nara espace, ators précis du termite st une composant entice dels machine rai” (, ‘Already inthe introduction tothe nove it Becomes cer tha the modern ‘urban contents already writen or scripted: thatthe wan contents charged ith potential narrative events which unfolds when they ae gered by the ban characters who in tam hs toler how olive sd avian uch sctiped spc. The novel shows how the lations Between the cy and wba ‘man have Become complex a way tht ould be chaaceried a cistially lnvewined? This complex conception ofthe city makes imposible to ‘maltain the onder attained from 1 Cartesian separation betwen subject end objec narrtorandnarted,obererand observed. Sach a resrctring ofpecepon isnot exhsve to Bala’ work but ‘elects general predigaticshif scoring othe vu Ristori Jonathan (rary, who points to an “uprooting of vision,” and atthe same tine “new valuation of visual expvence” (1). This new intbty in ad atthe ene {ime valuation of viol experience atthe coe of hse Base novels, whe ‘hey both thematically nd formalystage the undermining of the Caen, linear perspective observer in the moder metoplix, Wile both ForapusandLe Pere Govst emphasize the dificultiesof obtaining novel vew of the modern bounds city, they al dea witha very song ‘gto survey and thereby conto they. In Forms allthe main characters are tying to penetrate the mala mystery ‘ofthe debious connections between the ley sve and maser of degues, Ferragus andthe young Madame Jl, married oles Desmart. Except of ‘our Mme Jules and Ferragus themselves, who ae tring desperately to keep the secret that she i infact his daughter. The plot is initiated when she ie ‘sepsis velar ype ny denotes ‘elnino often peng dingy meg Perse iar aero vase reson invari Sop Regine of Mose: Aerie especie ne eich concen te her mend Sipicany, hat ye esl, ater ha th wo ee forma ince sion Tes cncied in th mae of oe ee king ough «pepe esceein font of) 1 this specie episode Balsac cary stags how the subject ofthe linear perspective isin ao way «transcendental abject. Or, 0 put inthe words of ‘Mart ay, he hows the relativistic implication ofthe lines perspective and ‘eenforms the transcendental and universal subj ofthe linear perspective lato contingent observe salely dependent on the pts, india ‘son of dine beholder, with heir own concrete eatons othe scene in ‘ont ofthe” (11). Parthermore the novel demonstrates setting which ‘s,notcoinidenala Prison the treo of developing into a modernity, Wis mot just «theoretical demonstration ofthe Uimiations ofthe Catan lines perspective but this episode, a wel asthe novel in genera ia rece “demonstration of how this perspective is no longer curent n a compl, ‘dynamic urtan sting ‘Le Pir Goviorcan alo be readasa drama shot aed tempts to survey tnd ‘ontrolthe cy. Adificaly which ven works onthelevelof the narrator, ho ‘atin his nation gives up hi surveying linear perpectve and dies to felow Rasigac’s navigation through the Parisian "bourbies°Consequenty, both the narator and the protagonists ake part inthe drama of surveying and controling the cy. And they all more oes fu” Bt til the novel end with Rasignac's panoramic view of Pars fom the Pare Lachaise cemetery — 4 coding thathas been interpreted as open even dlutoned. ‘ants Seen yom ‘The novel thus lat dramato the criss f the casa incr perspective ‘observes confronted withthe modes urbaniedciyandyetheybothend wih panoramic views of Pai. These param ws ae quite pra although ‘they faction somewhat ferent in Bala’ repective noel At these ‘ime, these endings are ver concave inthe way hat they both explicit frm toting view ofthe confined urban apace of the novel oe could ay hat ‘hey formulate the spe ofthe novels a general vison, and ince than, Parsn space uch central and problematical iste inthe novels could venbefesetosay that they present the plotof the ove sr general ion, one acerps this one shuld alo expecta fin ether some sorta oan” toa wa of dealing wth oat east transformation of some ofthe problems concerning perception and perspective in conection wth modern urban ‘pce And, sw uy ast this exactly what happens. Both novelsmounta panoramic pespctiveon the metropolis seen withthe ccropols ofthe churchyard in the foreound ats dead model or Ife representation fel living Pars. Le Pre Gora nse with the mounting Rasignacina panoramic perspective overlooking Pars ram the ere ache cemetery after having bured is dominant father Higa, Gort Alo the pan- ‘ram is mentioned several tines throughout the novelin important pasages: {orinstane asan example ofhow language and communication isaltered md “panorunized™ by fthion and media" In Faraps, the panocuicaly structured view ofthe cab apperstowardthe end ofthe novel when les Isinspecinghis wie’ tomb tthe Pre Lacie cemetery? Ninth Cntr Fc Sa 9, Noe. 182 F-00001 5 views, Pars is esrb at phantanmagorcl and seductive ical rr arong sense ofemophere evoked by diferent light effects "Panongh rhetorical and pri eet the cy descibed ws space ded ‘round ie and impenetrable fr alien perspective view. In Frags the ews prsnted inthe flowing way: Ct ee info comet encore tot Pari es es esl Indies, es ies mis apr vere dont dee once Pe. micron dt ux pete dimensions drome des lane es mont mgr unin qi n'a rien de pang wt Pus Jes apr et Pied ne ng ile de Senge cote de Vania de Met, ‘tre eur de Bele de Morar, e etal Pati envelope dn oe Siete prod parses ture deel rena or apbane embras un coup ares uname ile maion et en mot apace compris eat a clonoe des pace Vedime ot a couple dor det livid ~ le ce prune criout de ce mone ql apie epee pours peer aie (3 898) ‘The ays of sunliph shine in he smoke in away that envelopes the ty and formsan atmospheric perspeciveon the cl spac that confined betwrcathe fou dope of Vega, Meudon, Belevle and Montmare, With "coup efile embrace” he cy sfory thousand howsesand poets he ‘facebetween the endme square andthe vases church t the ame Ge ‘ei sighing at being confonted with the panoramic vew ofthe modern cy that as taken his wife away fom hm. A ih wich cxpresed a chim, ‘mphasiss Jules distanced resgaton over hispoweresness when acing

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