ABSTRACT Henry Céard's Une belle journée, a ‘plotless' novel, illuminates debates about pessimism in late nineteenth-century France by bringing to the fore the imperative to interpretation. The way that the novel's heroine is cast as having resigned herself to lackluster existence presents a contrast with Flaubert's Emma Bovary and ignites debates about whether resignation represents an abdication of happiness or creates its conditions of possibility. Readers' interpretation of Céard’s novel is bound up with their understanding of pessimism; debates about the novel can illuminate and be illuminated by larger debates about pessimism in fiction and non-fiction in the later nineteenth century.

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亨利·塞德（HenryCéard）的《联合国美女》中的悲观主义，叙事和意义

摘要亨利·塞德（HenryCéard）的小说《无情》（Une bellejournée）是一部“无情”小说，它通过强调解释的必要性，阐明了十九世纪末法国对悲观主义的辩论。小说中女主人公被迫辞职后表现平平，这与弗劳伯特的艾玛·博瓦里（Emma Bovary）形成鲜明对比，并引发了有关辞职是否代表幸福的放弃或创造幸福可能性的争论。读者对塞阿德小说的解读与他们对悲观主义的理解息息相关。关于小说的辩论可以在十九世纪后期的小说和非小说中对悲观主义进行的更大辩论中得到启发和启发。