"DILECTIO" Y "AMOR" EN LA NOVELA FRANCESA

Asper the French novel we have traditionally been told about the confrontation between dilectio and love. The former was understood as a kind of restrained, measured affection between husband and wife that was aimed at reproduction. Against this idea, over and over again, a sort of passionate love keeps coming up as an indicator of the drives that the Christain religion unsuccessfully tried to repress. As the church was worried about the moral education of young women, during the 19th and the first part of the 20th centuries it launched a literary offensive consisting of the publication of novels that followed the Catholic ideal and which were designed for the feminine public. However, the new lifestyles for wotnan had a role in doing away with this type of publication and in the 20th century the traditional novel itself will have to adapt to the currently prevailing social reality. Una larguisima tradición nos habla en la novela francesa del enfrentamiento entre dilectio y amor, entendido el primer concepto como afecto entre esposos, comedido, mesurado y encaminado a la reproducción. Frente a esa idea, va a aflorar una y otra vez el amor pasional, como exponente de las pulsiones que la religión cristiana se empeñó en reprimir sin demasiado éxito. Preocupada la Iglesia por la educación inoral de las jóvenes, lanzó, durante el siglo XIX y la primera parte del XX, una ofensiva literaria, que consistirá en la publicación de novelas que seguían el ideario católico, dirigidas a Lin publico femenino. Pero las nuevas condiciones de vida de las mujeres dieron al traste con esas publicaciones y ya en el siglo XX la propia novela de corte tradicional tendrá que adaptarse a la realidad social imperante