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Антитеатральность во французском салоне XVII века: к вопросу о максиме 81 маркизы де Сабле
This article is devoted to the analysis of aphorism 81 from the collection “Maxims” by Marquise de Sablé (1678), which offers a critique of the theatre. In the course of the research, we demonstrate that one of the versions of this maxim turns out to be identical to a fragment from B. Pascal’s “Thoughts”. The analysis examines the origins of the anti-theatricality of this salon that was adjacent to F. de La Rochefoucauld and J. Esprit, in the context of the controversy surrounding theater in French intellectual culture of the 17th century. Along with the statement about the depravity of human nature striving for spectacle Sablé and Pascal use quite possibly under the influence of La Rochefoucauld appeals to the “amour-propre” as a human quality that is incompatible with catharsis in its traditional Aristotelian understanding.