Conversation in Menlo Park, a reading of 'L'Ève future' by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

  • Sylvie Thorel Université de Lille
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34929/sep.vi19.301
Keywords: Stéphane Mallarmé, Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Poetry, Automaton, Conversation

Abstract

Continuing the reflections carried by Mallarmé with a view to a thesis on language, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam published, in 1886, the strange novel entitled L’Ève future. This story of the creation of an ideal automaton, endowed with speech, supports a conception: when no God can no lo longer guarantee meaning, it is now deployed in ‟the silences between words” and becomes an exclusive matter of interpretation.

Published
2025-02-24
How to Cite
Thorel, S. “Conversation in Menlo Park, a Reading of ’L’Ève future’ by Villiers De L’Isle-Adam”. Savoirs En Prisme, no. 19, Feb. 2025, pp. 67-82, doi:10.34929/sep.vi19.301.
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No. 19 (2025): Variations on conversation from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries in the West
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Articles

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