Dissimulation et dévoilement dans le Pseudokynegeticos du Roumain Odobescu

Résumé (en anglais)

Pseudokynegeticos, game, dissimulation, ironic contortion, discovery. « The false hunting treaty » by Alexandru Odobescu, sub-titled « foreword to the hunter's textbook » – published in 1874 by a friend of the writer's, Constantin Cornescu, an expert in hunting, has a double character. First, it sounds like a didactic discourse thanks to its numerous digressions, philosophical explanation, abundance of citations and excess of footnotes. At the same time, the author performs a sort of ironic contortion through certain rhetoric games such as false citations, subtle self-mockery, thus inscribing the reader in a hermeneutic game, an itinerary of active discovery based on the metaphorical connection between hunting and reading, two arts sharing the same need for tracking, stalking and discovering.