...Alison James Copyright © 2000 The Trustees of Columbia University 2000 Alison James FEAR OF FALLING: THE MYTH OF ICARUS IN LA VIE MODE D'EMPLOI ]'aime: les pares, les jardins, Ie papier quadrille [ ] les toits d'ardoise, La Chute d'Icare [ ]1 T he presence of "programmed" allusions...

... sreurs faisoient leurs habitacles. Ha! dit iI, qu'a bon droit les neuf pucelles ont Pour ces roches d'aymant quite leur double mont, Pour faire sur Ie Clain desormais leurs miracles. 18 Several mythological figures-Mercury, Icarus, and the Muses-mingle in this sonnet. Couldray draws on two episodes from...

... that give stability and strength to Matisse's radiant vision of light and color. "It was in the summer of 1943, the darkest moment of that whole period, that he made an Icarus," Aragon wrote of the point when the second world war approached its crisis in Europe: a time of sleepless nights and fearful days...

... Part du feu de Maurice Blanchot," 279-287 Ippolito, Christophe, "Critique du positivisme et fictions d'un savoir dans Bouvard etPecuchet," 61-75 James, Alison, "Fear of Falling: The Myth of Icarus in La Vie mode d'emploi," 505-522 Jullien, Dominique, "Zarie dans la Brousse," 263-278 Le Calvez, Eric...

... this poem as well, such as citing Icarus in line twelve to characterize the presumption of Gongora's imitators. Emilio Orozco Dfaz concludes, "Este soneto, pues, es una muestra mas de esos intentos de Lope por buscar la reconciliacion con su rival." (288) The result of this poem is a construction...