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• W83766130 abstract "How not to speak of in Atala? The subject would seem to be unavoidable, for Chateaubriand's exotic tale of the doomed love of Chactas and Atala has frequently been read precisely through its evident thematic parallels in this regard with Rene: as the story of an between brother and sister, along with its inevitable prohibition. This incestuous influence of Rene on the critical reception of Atala has of course not been unwarranted, since the two texts share more than a passing resemblance. Both were originally written as episodes of Chateaubriand's grand Indian epic, Les Natchez, but were soon incorporated instead into Le Genie du christianisme (1802) as exemplary illustrations of the aesthetics of Christianity. Already in 1801, though, Atala had been published separately in order to stir interest in the coming Genie, a role in which it succeeded spectacularly, going through five editions in its first year. Rene made its debut the following year in joining Atala in Le Genie, and after several successful editions, the two episodes were extracted from Le Genie and published together in their definitive form in a separate volume (1805). Bound together by this publishing history, Chateaubriand's two texts are also linked, of course, by the characters of Rene and Chactas; in Atala, the elderly Chactas recounts for Rend his youthful adventure with Atala, while Rend narrates for Chactas (and le Pere Souel) the story that bears his name. Given Amelie's confession of her criminelle passion (190) for her brother Rene, then, as well as her chaste, saint-like death in a monastery, it is difficult not to speak of an analogous structure of in the case of Atala and Chactas. Atala, too, dies the chaste death of a saint to avoid consummating her for Chactas--though the two are not literally brother and sister, Chactas's adoptive father, the Spaniard Lopez, significantly turns out to be Atala's biological father. On hearing this revelation, Chactas exclaims, O ma soeur! o fille de Lopez! explaining that C'en etait trop pour nos coeurs que cette amitie fraternelle qui venait nous visiter, et joindre son a notre amour (121). On the verge of succumbing to Chactas's advances, Atala's virtue is only saved from such an act of symbolic incest when le Pere Aubry melodramatically intervenes a moment later to rescue them from the storm raging around them--and in effect to impose the prohibition on incest. (1) Reading Atala this way in the light of Rene surely illuminates crucial elements of the text, but such a simple parallel may also obscure much of the critical interest and specificity of Atala, in particular as concerns the very complexity of the problem of incest. (2) Indeed, a remarkable aspect of Chateaubriand's text would seem to be how Atala is less concerned with recounting the tale of desire that underlies Atala's struggle with her vow of chastity than with reflecting precisely on the problem of how not to speak of incest. This problem emerges quite explicitly, for example, toward the end of the text, when le Pere Aubry attempts to console the dying Atala with a biblical allusion to the founding marriages of human society: Je ne vous parlerai point des mariages des premiers-nes des hommes, de ces unions ineffables, alors que la soeur etait l'epouse du frere, que l'amour et l'amitie fraternelle se confondaient dans le meme coeur, et que la purete de l'une augmentait les de1ices de l'autre. Toutes ces unions ont ete troublees; la jalousie s'est glissee l'autel de gazon ou l'on immolait le chevreau, elle a regne sous la tente d'Abraham, et dans ces couches memes oh les patriarches goutaient rant de joie, qu'ils oubliaient la mort de leurs mires. (144) The context of this peculiar remark is le Pere Aubry's exhortation to Atala to have no regrets about her unfulfilled for Chactas; as he tells her, un jour, peut-etre le degout fut venu avec la satiete (144)--what hope is there in human if even Adam and Eve, who had the best chances for success, were unable to maintain lasting happiness? …" @default.
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• W83766130 title "How Not to Speak of Incest: Atala and the Secrets of speech.(Critical Essay)" @default.
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