Review Reviewed Work(s): Transitions savantes et dissimulées: une étude structurelle des contes et nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant by Tuula Lehman Review by: Charles J. Stivale Source: The French Review, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Dec., 1993), pp. 362-363 Published by: American Association of Teachers of French Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/397392 Accessed: 06-03-2023 13:19 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms American Association of Teachers of French is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The French Review This content downloaded from 141.217.20.120 on Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:19:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 362 FRENCH LEHMAN, REVIEW TUULA. nouvelles de Tran Guy Litterarum. Helsink 951-653-217-9. Pp. A study as ambitiou thematic analysis en velles-immediately r that the author sets f an overarching view Structure syntagmat in these tales: their "deroulement," and fourths of her wor Maupassant's short f tiques," i.e. the princ le monde" cupy "le As rich (la solitude moi" (l'anima in structura flawed in terms of point does Lehman q employs, as if the m occurred. Moreover, (thematic) distinctio (1973) without indic "in absentia" are the to accept the structu model, it is surprisin his famous essay "Li 77). For, by connecti of language that "pr [paradigmatic] into t might have at least relations create distin On the other hand, her failure to refer t besides Sullivan's Mau most obvious and av work on Maupassant masterful thematic Dispossession in Maup by Fitz on mirrors ( (Nineteenth-Century cused of chauvinism maintain that to att original contribution her/his advisors to d re-inventing the scho access to European so pertinent criticism, o Lecarme and Vercier cennes, 1988), This content downloaded from 141.217.20.120 on Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:19:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms as w REVIEWS 363 (Neophilologus financial reso other than the institutions t holdings. Wayne State University Charles J. Stivale PALLISTER, JANIS. Aimt Cesaire. New York: Twayne Publish 8266-4. Pp. xxiii + 149. $24.95. Twayne introductions to the authors of the world are often lesser-known writers available to small college libraries, whe quality, these works can serve to present the essential biograp and sometimes critical information. When the subject of writer, such as C6saire, on whom a number of useful studie the Twayne volume should offer some new perspective. In nately, there is little of value, some misinformation, and distinction. Much of the discussion consists of quotations from critics to their interpretations, with occasional disagreements, bu analysis that would permit the reader to see the point of the dismissed rather quickly in two chapters. In Les Armes mirac couple of the poems are accessible" (31). The plays are treate mostly by plot summary. The variations in versions of La Trag are pointed out, but without significant critical discussion. Th of place in an introductory work. There are a number of questionable statements. Cahier d'un may be the story of Cesaire's "evolution from shame to pride as Pallister claims, a theme as well of L'Enfant noir, or Les Lumping Caribbean and African authors together in this w tion. Camara Laye's evocation of his childhood in Guinea c shame. The suggestion that Cahier shows that "the old neg now" (14) misinterprets the meaning of negritude. Comme and poem on Sekou Toure suggest that only Western circ dictatorial, at the least a very out of date statement. Pallis mus's L'Etranger with his Caligula. There are also occasion and odd translations: "royal gum drops" for "bonbons royau After quoting Cesaire-"The vegetable (woman) is the bac over and against which action is performed, by the animal" accusation of misogyny in Cesaire is "without much basis" ments is the grandmother in Cahier, who is "to be constru mother of the race" (18). Similar claims for the importance relation to the plays. The argument seems exceptionally na case would need to be advanced to prove that seeing wom archetype is not misogynist. The discussion of Cesaire in relation to European surrealis The European surrealist, according to Pallister, "renounces h and opts instead for automatic writing" (115), an assertion Comparison of Cesaire's surrealism with Senghor's African This content downloaded from 141.217.20.120 on Mon, 06 Mar 2023 13:19:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms