Women in his community and prays to Venus to grant him a spouse Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion is thoroughly disgusted by the Lonely sculptor who longs for a woman worthy of his attention. Most traditions of the Pygmalion narrative tell the story of the The ways in which Claire de Duras rewrites the ovidian story privileging The protagonist struggles to understand "Pourquoi etait-elleĬondamnee a la vie?" (32). This is a creation story in which knowledge is punished, as Story, based on historical fact, projected onto the grid of an ovidianĬharacter. Perspective on the existence created for her Ourika is story within a Of the doctor-narrator's text to give the reader Ourika's Ourika, the statue's experience breaks out of the stony container Ourika reflects on and about her white creator and her black self. Rather than merely reflect her creator as a mirror image, The ovidian myth: this black Galatea gives voice to her alienation from Object: she feels herself to be a colored commodity, sculpted in the Ourika's interrogation about the ultimate happiness of theĪnimated statue Galatea indicates that she identifies with the created Plutot le contraire: il faut payer le bienfait de savoir par leĭesir d'ignorer, et la fable ne nous dit pas si Galatee trouva le Resulte-t-il toujours de ces dons de l'intelligence? Je croirais Providence en n'etant point heureuse et cependant le bonheur Me sauver de l'esclavage, me choisir pour bienfaitrice Mme de B.,Ĭ'etait me donner deux fois la vie: je fus ingrate envers la Is the protagonist herself who evokes the Pygmalion myth by implicitlyĬomparing herself to Galatea, providing the reader with an interpretive It is his voice which frames the story, but it The narration of her tragic past and speaks to the reader through theĭoctor's narrative. Narrative: the white doctor-narrator's recit descibing hisĮncounter with this seriously ill nun contains/ restrains the Sculpture, for the story must be chipped and sculpted out of a framing She dies of a broken heart, in what Margaret Waller has termed "theĪt its most literal level Ourika is itself like a work of Herself from despair by turning to religion and enters a convent where Watches Charles begin his married family life. Never reveals her love and becomes more and more despondent as she She is awakened to her racial difference, and all that it implies, she Grandsons, and comes to fall in love with one of them, Charles. Guardian Mme de B., loves her adopted siblings, Mme de B.'s Ourika is educated in the style appropriate toĪny young French girl of the upper class in the period. When a Senegalese child is rescued from slavery and raised in a whiteĪristocratic society of pre-revolutionary France and is then refused a (1) Theįictional story of Ourika explores the interior conflicts that occur The perspective of she who is molded, sculpted and fashioned. Transforms the ovidian Pygmalion tradition giving us now the story from
(Claire-Rose-Louise-Bonne de Coetnempren de Kersaint, 1777-1828) The 1823 publication of the French novella Ourika by de Duras
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