词汇 | marivaudage |
词源 | marivaudage. Important advances in the development of the novel were made by French writer Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688–1763), who is undeserving of his fate at the hands of the dictionaries. Marivaudage, however, means an af- fected, overstrained style, as exemplified by the witty bantering of lovers in his two unfinished novels and 30 plays. Marivaux’s subtle, graceful works are mostly excellent psychological studies of middle-class psychology and led a contemporary to remark that his characters not only tell each other and the reader everything they have thought, but everything that they would like to persuade themselves that they have thought. Marivaudage has also been described as “the metaphysics of love making.” The author was much admired in his own time, though not by Voltaire, whose work he criticized, and it is said that Madame de Pompadour secretly provided him with a large pension. |
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