Abstract EN:

In focussing on the structures of the text, we have undertaken an internal reading approach to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and "L'Education sentimentale". For the writer, the composition of his text reflects the construction of a machine in which the mechanism of the machine forms the basis for the very condition of the realist text. While the spending side forms the positive motor of the narration, the debt forms the negative one, the end of the text corresponding to the end of the "instant de conservation du récit", the moment in which the narration is kept alive. Its textual energy is that of an entropy. Social reality is read as an ideological organisation, but at the same time, social reality comes to the surface only at the time of being perceived. It is thus inseparably linked to the subjectivity of perception. In this interaction between the "internal" and the "external", not only we can depict a process of an intimate social control, but also the esthetization of the social machinery.