La melancolie sans miroir: une lecture de "Brumes et Pluies." (comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire)
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The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Charles Baudelaire is apparent in a comparison of Poe's 'The Raven' and Baudelaire's 'Brumes et Pluies.' Both do have similar themes but the depiction of depression or melancholia varies. Poe is much more pessimistic and self-involved, while Baudelaire tries to reconcile art and life. Baudelaire is looking for a middle way between the extremes of depression and the vision of the ideal. Memories are both a sign of mortality and the attempt to rise above human existence. They lighten the loss of the past by remaining as a sign of connection with this past.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1996
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The performance of solitude: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and the resistance poetry of Rene Char
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Comparing the idea of solitude as depicted by Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and in Rene Char's resistance poetry shows that all think of solitude as an ocular independence. In adopting a poetic stance free of ideology, these poets can make certain pragmatic and aesthetic choices. For Char, the Resistance's material conditions provided a metaphor for the reversal of the private and the public. In wartime France, the Resistance fighter had to be invisible and to communicate in a secret code.Char's poetics of solitude challenge the fascist ideology of crowd consensus.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1997
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La Nourriture comme miroir de l'ame et du corps chez Albert Cohen
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Nourishment is a prominent theme in the work of Albert Cohen. The details of meals and preparations reveal aspects of his characters' personality, social class and condition. Article text is in French.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 2000
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