Portraits of Flaubert and Maupassant as cameraphobes - Resistance to photographic mimetism

Cameraphobia (to be understood as the refusal of one's own photographic por trait) was transmitted, with variants from Flaubert (when he goes to Orient with Du Camp the photographer-traveller) and to show how it is related, on the one hand, to aesthetic principles such as noncommitment of the author and idealization, and on the other hand to the paternity crisis which conce rns the relationship between Master and Disciple.