Le désir mimétique dans Les inséparables par Simone de Beauvoir

Sammanfattning: This study examines how the désir triangulaire, first defined by the French sociologist andanthropologist René Girard in his essay Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (1961), ispresented in the novel Les inséparables (2020), written by the French author Simone deBeauvoir. The result of this study indicates a presence of desire in the four main relationshipsof the novel due to a désir triangulaire present between the parts of the relationship. Thepresence of the désir triangulaire results in relationships with the dynamic of three parties,even though the relationship only consists of two people.