Les romans du Wessex, une esthétique du regard

Abstract

The novel was, in his own words, “gradually losing artistic form, with a beginning, middle and end, and becoming a spasmodic inventory of items, which has nothing to do with art.” (Hardy 1989, 309) He […] obliterates the names of the six counties, whose area he traverses in his scenes, under the general appellation of “Wessex” — an old word that became quite popular after the date of Far from the Madding Crowd, where he first introduced it. So far did he carry this idea of the unity of Wessex...