Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

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  Julie CROHAS COMMANS

  Le jeu du père

  Narrations paternelles dans le roman français contemporain

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 505

  In French literature, the father has few opportunities to be heard. The contemporary novel is no exception. While there have been an increasing number of stories about filiation since the 1980's, the father is consistently told to remain silent...

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  Jean-François HANGOUËT

  Picaros et pédoncules

  Romain Gary et l’en-avant de l’Humanité selon Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 504

  This study characterizes, even in its specificities, the evolutionary humanism cultivated by the work of Romain Gary by exploring the diligence with which he questioned and prolonged the symbolism, poetics...

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  Valérie BUCHELI

  Intertextualité exotique de Victor Segalen

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 503

  The Divers is the emblem of the thought of otherness that Victor Segalen intended to formalize in an essay on exoticism that has often been left out from his collection of writings...

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  Lectures de Lucrèce

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 502

  This book brings together a number of significant fragments of centuries-old conversations that scholars and creators have had with Lucretia. This text uses a resolutely transdisciplinary approach to address these Lucretian echoes...

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  Thomas VERCRUYSSE

  La kairologie

  Pour une poétique de la circonstance

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 501

  Kairology is an attitude of thought that favors circumstance rather than essence, metamorphosis rather than substance. This book shows how the seizing of circumstance...

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  Philippe HAMON

  Rencontres sur tables et choses qui traînent

  De la nature morte en littérature

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 500

  Literary criticism, which borrows some of its terms from painting, very rarely uses the expression “still life” to describe certain groupings of objects, landscapes, or interiors within novels...

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  Nicolas VALAZZA

  La poésie délivrée

  Le livre en question du Parnasse à Mallarmé

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 499

  Located at the intersection of the history of publishing and literary analysis, this text investigates why many of the most influential poets in the second half of the nineteenth century had so much trouble publishing their books...

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  Patrick LABARTHE

  Sainte-Beuve, une poétique de l'intime

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 498

  The portraits of Sainte-Beuve can be seen as the Dutch interiors of French literature. This book follows the experiences and the private thoughts with Sainte-Beuve...

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  Edouard RICHARD

  L'argent de Zola et le krach de l'Union générale. Une lecture juridique

  Tome premier : Un autre rêve d'Icare / Tome II (uniquement dans la version PDF) : Pièces justificatives

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 497

  This text presents a new critical edition of one of the most intense episodes of the Rougon saga, L’Argent. In the first volume, Edouard Richard retraces the links between Zola's novel and the crash of the Union...

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  Eric BENOIT

  Obstinément la littérature

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire n° 496

  This book analyzes the paradoxes of writing that persists against the impossibility of writing. Writing is a work that is endless, unachievable, always resistant to internal obstacles and external ones...