Du spectacle du bovarysme au roman méloforme : scènes de l’opéra chez Flaubert (Madame Bovary) et Kuncewiczowa (L’Étrangère). Ire partie

This paper forms the first part of a comparative study which centres on the fragments of Flaubert’s and Kuncewiczowa’s novels which refer to opera performances (Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly). In the first part of the study published here, a comparative analy-sis of the function of the quoted opera scenes in both novels was attempted. The conclusion is that these scenes should be treated not necessarily as mirrors in which the characters want to recognise themselves, but rather as specific synecdoches of « Bovarism », revealing its characteristics and the transgressive dimension. The second part of the study (Cahiers ERTA, no 10) will discuss the socio-political dimension of the quoted scenes, whilst their location within the context of other references to music, present in both novels, as well as of the aesthetic views of both writers will allow to dis-cover some characteristics of their projects of musical novels