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The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought
The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective.
The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830
The Consecration of the Writer is the definitive study of the first stages of a phenomenon that has profoundly affected world literature: the process by which modern writers ceased to speak as representatives of some religious or political power and instead seized the mantle of spiritual authority in their own right, speaking directly to and in the name of humanity. ø Paul Bänichou identifies three great moments in this process: the advent of the Enlightenment faith in philosophy and the rise of its literary concomitant, the man of letters; the literary creations of the counterrevolution and their surprising involvement in the elevation of the status of poetry; and, finally, the fusion of these tendencies in the early phases of romanticism in France. ø Bänichou deepens our understanding of romanticism by showing that it was a revision of the Enlightenment faith rather than a reaction against it. The extraordinary depth of Bänichou?s research, the originality of his conclusions, and the importance of his methodological reflections make this study an essential reference in the contemporary return to literary history.
Unacknowledged Legislators
What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives--perhaps sacred alternatives--to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next...
L'hôtel de la vieille lune
Dans ce nouveau roman, Roger Hanin choisit, une fois encore, de donner libre cours à son imagination burlesque, de laisser vivre en totale liberté ses héros extravagants... L'histoire ? Tout, ici, se passe dans un hôtel, l'Hôtel de la vieille lune, sis rue des Marsupiaux, où règnent deux jumelles, Jade et Rubis - qui, précisons-le, se prénomment parfois Valentine et Bérénice... Ah, le curieux hôtel ! Est-ce un phalanstère ? Un repère pour gros bonnets de la drogue ? Un lieu bizarre où les chats et les tortues parlent ? Toujours est-il qu'à la suite du meurtre d'un locataire chinois - mais a-t-il été tué par un Basque ou par un agent de l'IRA ? - le commissaire Moshé Benaïm, qui s'appelle, parfois, Marc Antoine de Laugeron, mène son enquête... Celle-ci le conduira, entre autres, jusqu'en Colombie. De fait, l'intrigue de ce roman - désopilant et grave - importe moins que la façon dont Roger Hanin la raconte. Tout, ici, lui est prétexte à digression, à méditation, à songerie... Son " Hôtel de la vieille lune " devient, alors, une sorte d'arche où un Noé débonnaire a entassé des spécimens humains - en attendant le déluge...
