19th & 20th centuries

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  Chantal MASSOL

  Une Poétique de l’énigme : le récit herméneutique balzacien

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Enigmas became particularly popular in post-revolutionary novels - Balzac had a predilection for them. Chantal Massol, in her essay, not only draws our attention to their recurring presence in La Comédie Humaine, but also studies the historical and...

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  Edward BIZUB

  Proust et le moi divisé. La "Recherche" : creuset de la psychologie expérimentale, 1874-1914

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  «A book is the product of another self»: Proust's well-known statement is envisioned here as the literary translation of various investigations of the unconscious in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, before Freud's decisive discoveries...

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  Michael MAAR

  D’une "Lolita" l’autre : Heinz von Lichberg et Vladimir Nabokov

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  In 1916 Heinz von Lichberg, journalist long since forgotten, published a short story called Lolita - almost forty years before Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel. How did Lolita go from a pale sketch to a masterpiece of world literature? Michael Maar...

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  Mireille RUPPLI, Sylvie THOREL-CAILLETEAU

  Mallarmé : la grammaire & le grimoire

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  The ‘secret parity’ that Mallarmé perceived ‘between the old methods and the spell of poetry’ has led Mireille Ruppli and Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau to reconsider the consequences ‘of a planned study on speech’. The linguistic studies that Mallarmé...

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  Reto MONICO

  Suisse-Portugal : regards croisés, 1890-1930

  Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève (SHAG) | Publications hors série de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève

  This work concentrates on how Portugal and Switzerland perceive each other, rather than on relations between the two countries. Switzerland’s interest in Portugal is awakened by major events: the English ultimatum (1890), the assassination of King...

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  Patrice de La Tour du Pin : "La Quête de Joie" au cœur d' "Une Somme de poésie"

  Actes du colloque de Paris, Collège de France, 25-26 septembre 2003

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Patrice de La Tour du Pin belongs to the contemporary consciousness as naturally as the sound of wind in the trees or the cry of wild birds ‘fleeing towards other climes’. ‘All the countries that no longer have legends / Will be condemned to dying of...

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  Sujets ou citoyens ? Neuchâtel avant la Révolution de 1848

  Université de Neuchâtel - Faculté des Lettres | Recueil de Travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l'Université de Neuchâtel

  This book analyses the reasons for and the nature of the 1848 Revolution in Neuchâtel, as understood within its historical context, from the Pruissian Restoration in 1814 to the radical victory in 1848. Neuchâtel is the only European state where the...

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  Frédéric Chopin : interprétations

  Actes du symposium international organisé par l'Université de Genève

  Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

  In the last thirty years Chopin’s manuscripts have been catalogued and his first editions extensively studied, thereby renewing our understanding of his creative process. The idea of an Ur-text has given way to that of an ‘open’ work with multiple...

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  Les Grandes compagnies de chemin de fer en France (1823-1937)

  Librairie Droz | Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale

  French railways during the third Republic made an original experiment of mixed economy illustrated by the relationship between the state and the great railway companies created in the mid-nineteenth century. François Caron retraces their history up...

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  Philippe KAENEL

  Le Métier d'illustrateur (1830-1880) :

  Rodolphe Töpffer, J. J. Grandville, Gustave Doré

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  From 1830, the number of illustrators grew in line with the revolution in the world of print and engraving. Most nineteenth-century artists worked for the book trade at some time. This ‘journalism of the pencil’ (Théophile Gautier) could be either a...