Natalia Tigranovna Pakhsarian – DSc in philology, Professor, Leading researcher at the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The correlation between the works of Marivaux and Voltaire is usually considered as a dialogue of diverse figures of the eighteenth-century literature. At the same time, Voltaire’s assessment of Marivaux’s style is traditionally interpreted as dismissive and mocking, and Marivaux himself is seen as an opponent of Voltaire and his supporters. Meanwhile, a more detailed analysis of the educator’s reviews of his contemporary, as well as the study of Marivaux’s views expressed in his works of various genres, allows us to discover a rather ambiguous relationship between the work of these writers. Both in the content of philosophical ideas and in the form of their presentation, in the poetics and stylistics of Rococo, not only differences are found, but also paradoxically moments of similarity between both writers.
Marivaux; Voltaire; Marivodage; philosophy of empiricism; Rococo style