19th & 20th centuries

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  Dominique PETY

  Les Goncourt et la collection : de l'objet d'art à l'art d'écrire

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  The literary works of the Goncourt brothers should be read in the light of their collection of French eighteenth-century and Japanese art, and not least their library. Their novels become collections of observations, and descriptions serve to document...

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  Geneviève HENROT

  Henry Bauchau poète : le vertige du seuil

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  A novelist, playwright, diarist and essayist, Henry Bauchau is a poet first and foremost. Enriched by contact with these multiple genres, his poetry reveals an inner progression. This critical essay’s attention to forms, themes and motifs highlights...

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  Carl SCHMITT

  La Valeur de l’Etat et la signification de l’individu

  Librairie Droz | Classiques de la Pensée Politique

  In his first essay of political philosophy, La Valeur de l’Etat et la signification de l’individu (1914), Carl Schmitt focuses on the State and its interaction with the law and the individual. This early work, published in French for the first time...

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  DESTUTT DE TRACY

  Lettres à Joseph Rey (1804-1814)

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  In October 1804, Joseph Rey, a poor, self-taught friend of Stendhal, "for ever acquired to the great cause of our admirable revolution", wrote to Destutt de Tracy. This last was a senator, a member of the Institute, but especially a leader of the...

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  Arielle MEYER

  Le Spectacle du secret : Marivaux, Gautier, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Stendhal et Zola

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  In literature, a secret often drives the plot, so that the result is paradoxically all about show. Certain novels in which the truth is hidden reveal a theatrical motif or the use of literary forms particular to the theatre. Taking Marivaux’s plays as...

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  Marta CARAION

  Pour fixer la trace : photographie, littérature et voyage au milieu du XIXe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Pour fixer la trace examines nineteenth-century writings on a common, non-literary theme: photography. This new form of representation is apparently in opposition to literary representation. Directly or indirectly, Flaubert and Gautier, historians and...

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  Letteratura italiana e cultura europea tra Illuminismo e romanticismo

  Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Padova-Venezia, 11-13 maggio 2000)

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Table of content: V. Branca, «Apertura del Convegno»; G. Ricuperati, «La cultura italiana nel secondo Settecento europeo»; S. Moravia, «La filosofia degli “idéologues”. Scienza dell’uomo e riflessione epistemologica tra Sette e Ottocento»; L. Sozzi...

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  Charles NODIER

  Questions de littérature légale : du plagiat, de la supposition d’auteurs, des supercheries qui ont rapport aux livres

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Famous but not properly known, Questions de littérature légale was published anonymously in 1812, then "considerably increased" and republished sixteen years later, by the - by now - Librarian to the King of the Arsenal. Highly appreciated by...

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  Le Crédit lyonnais (1863-1986) : Etudes historiques

  Librairie Droz | Publications d'histoire économique et sociale internationale

  This important anthology presents recent scholarship on the history of Crédit Lyonnais. It includes 41 contributions, divided into five different parts: Crédit Lyonnais as a business (its executives, facilities, professions, worker relations and...

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  Catherine BOUTHORS-PAILLART

  Duras la Métisse : métissage fantasmatique et linguistique dans l’œuvre de Marguerite Duras

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Marguerite Duras was born of French parents teaching in Indochina, yet she recognized the ambiguity of the métisse (mixed-race) condition as her own: "The métisse," she said, "comes from somewhere else. This somewhere else is without end. It is about...