La Cosmopolitisme antisémite de Georges Eekhoud dans La Nouvelle Carthage

Published in 1888, La Nouvelle Carthage by Georges Eekhoud is considered one of the founding texts of Belgian naturalism. This semi-autobiographical novel focuses on rural exodus, the development of an urban proletariat, and the inevitable cosmopolitanism resulting from the advent of modernity. Eekhoud articulates in La Nouvelle Carthage a diffuse form of anti-Semitism resulting from unsettling changes and movements of population. Nevertheless, the homosexual tendencies of the main protagonist of the novel, evident alter ego of Eekhoud himself, ultimately challenge such an attachment to rootedness and tradition, and what was originally viewed as unsettling and alienating becomes the promise of a new world order transgressing the common law. (PC) (In French)