Inauguré dans la culture occidentale par le texte fondateur des Métamorphoses d’Ovide (ce long poème épique qui récupère des légendes héritées de la tradition grecque et latine jusqu’au temps d’Auguste), le thème de la métamorphose connaît d’innombrables formulations et transformations au long de l’histoire des littératures. C’est ainsi que - la diversité des études présentées dans ce numéro de Carnets en témoi...
The departure of the Portuguese royal family and the court to Brazil as a consequence of Napoleon’s project for Europe has caught the attention of scholars to a new world, and its capacity of producing important changes in the cultural and literary relations between European countries and colonised ones. The Brazilian case, particularly present in the work of two of the first foreign historians of Portuguese li...
Althought it was written in 1967, Jean-Marc Lovay’s novel Épître aux Martiens was published in 2004 (Éditons Zoé). Published when so important books as La Tentation de l’Orient (1970), Polenta (1980), or Aucun de mes os ne sera troué pour servir de flûte enchantée (1998) had already insured their author’s fame, this novel reveals itself as an important introduction to a difficult author, but much aware of conte...
The reflection on the purpose of beauty “l’utilité du beau“, to which Théophile Gautier has contributed in a most exquisite way in the text that Literary History that we are accustomed to identify as the preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin’s timeless novel, which is still far from being out of date. In fact, this question has long ago surpassed the specific context of the reflection on romantic aesthetics which h...
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La mer... dans tous ses états.
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