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The period from 1801 to 1807 are the crucial years in the life of the marquis de Bombelles; widowed, he chooses to take orders, but without power to fulfill the functions of curate in the Austrian states. Preoccupied with his sons' future, he sends...
En Ménage can be read as a minor deviation from the credo of naturalism. If Zola sees "the eternal suffering and the eternal folly of life" within this pseudo roman d'adultère that appeared in 1881, Huysmans offers with it a sweeping investigation of...
Charles Nodier grouped his articles on the origin of languages, the alphabet, ethymology, neology, dialects and onomastics in a book that expresses an original perception of poetry, and literature in general. Written with as much brilliance as bite...
A writer’s diary speaks of the world, often doing so through the words of others, calling attention to the presence within him of what has already been said, but which he makes his own. It is a paradoxical situation in which the writing process...
In 1930, Charles Bally, linguistics professor at Geneva university, gave five lectures on the French language and its teaching in French-speaking Switzerland. In these he elaborates on society’s experience, real or perceived, of a language in...
The second volume of Rodolphe Töpffer’s correspondence contains letters written between his return to Geneva in July 1820, after an extended stay in Paris, and his appointment on 17 October 1832 as professor of rhetoric at the Geneva Academy. He...
"Monsters are no more" declared Huysmans in 1889 reiterating the Goncourt brothers. Decadence revisits with a vengeance an old debate in literature, art and aesthetics to renew the collective imagination of monstrosity and, in so doing, to define...
Unrequited love, the denial of the poet’s sacred status, or the refusal of modern society – Nerval’s writing is driven by a sense of loss. His poetry seeks to compensate for the constraints of verse forms, whereas in his prose stories, on the subject...
The authors of these texts (in French and German) specialize in the history of culture, art and institutions, and in sociology. From their variety of viewpoints, they all study the architecture of public institutions. How are these buildings...