Pastiche

A pastiche (of Italian pasticcio , pie) is an imitation of the style of an author or an artist, who aims neither the Plagiat nor the parody. One can discover some in all the literary and artistic fields.

Literary pastiche

The pastiche is as old as the literature. It is the meticulous imitation of the style of a writer, reproducing the forms and contours of its sentences, as the paste of a mould reproduces a model. In the French Literature, Rabelais is one of the first with pasticher, in the Third Delivers , works and the authors of its time. The two Masters of the kind are obviously Paul Reboux and Charles Müller, which, at the beginning of, will launch out in “to the manner of”, pastichant at the same time the form and the topics of this talented series of signed pastiches Sosie, that of Maupassant remaining a model of the genre.

Marcel Proust is illustrated in this register by its long pastiche of the Journal of the Goncourt in Time found and by its collection Pastiches and mixtures.

Among the contemporary authors, the Oulipiens especially, like Raymond Queneau and his Exercises of style , or Herve Tellier and his Mona Lisa up to hundred , work explicitly around the pastiche. We can also quote the Fountain, in its fable the Lion and the Hunter , having pastiche, saying it itself in the Shepherd and the Lion the fable éponyme of Esope.

  • In the field of the Cartoon, the pastiches of the American review “Mad” and in Europe, those of Roger Brunel (Glénat Editions).

  • the pastiche is also used in the popular literature, like the Heroic fantasy and the Science-fiction. Most of the Fan fiction S are pastiches. Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes became the hero many pastiches of the work of its creator. PHRASES PUT IN COMMENT because if one does not quote only one of them, that is not used for nothing. -->Le Romance of David Lodge The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965) is a pastiche of works of Joyce, Kafka, and Virginia Woolf.

Music and cinema

  • In the musical field, Charles Rosen regards various works of Mozart as pastiches of the style baroque. A pastiche is also a composite opera formed starting from extracts of various works; an example is the pastiche the Mysteries of Isis , formed starting from the Magic Flute, and largely criticized by Hector Berlioz in its Memories.

  • In the field of the cinema, the pastiche can be a homage paid by a director to another by taking again his angles of camera, its techniques of lighting or setting in scene, or the “utility” imitation of former works. The continuations or the films belonging to a cycle as the series the Star Wars of George Lucas can be regarded as pastiches of the original film.

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