Fénelon e as ilusões do Classicismo

Abstract

Studies of the late twentieth century on the literary life under the reign of Louis XIV destabilized the idea of homogeneity associated with the French Classicism (CHANTALAT, 1992; Fumaroli, 1997; Mesnard, 1990; Darmond, 2006; COSTA, 2009). This paper aims to demonstrate that some of the features defined as essential to “Classicism” can be revisited as “places” rich tension. The author of Les aventures de Télémaque, Fénelon, object of this study is that one of the writers, despite appearing in literary history books as an author of Classicism, closely read, not easily accepted this label. This article will seek to carry out a brief history of the readings of the pedagogical narrative Les Aventures de Télémaque to demonstrate as the interpretative practices participate in the constitution of the senses of a literary text, forcing him to inflections that kidnap it of his historical moment of production.