Le Mythe de Don Juan [French]

By Jean Rousset

Can Don Juan be considered a myth? There are two angles of approach: the uncertainty and fluidity of the idea of myth and the special position the story of the seducer and the stone guest has occupied for more than three centuries. The model of the hero has been degraded over time and works: what remains of the archetypal sinner and his clashes with Heaven? Can Don Juan be included in the category of myths that Levi Strauss or Vernant classified and defined among those myths of archaic societies, whose origins date back to the 'sacred times of beginnings' before history began? Yet Don Juan was born in the modern age and we know the first version.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2200279256
• ISBN13: 9782200279257
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Armand Colin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"