Author: Bolot, Annabelle, a.o.
Title: Figures et fonctions du destinataire dans les mémoires et les romans-memoires de l'epoque classique. Récit et vérité à l'époque classique (IV). Textes réunis et présentés par Annabelle Bolot, Coralie Bournonville, Marc Hersant & Catherine Ramond.
Description: Leuven, Peeters Poblishers & Booksellers, 2021. 393 pp. Orig. softcover. 8vo. (La République des Letters, 70). [ISBN: 9789042944435].Who are the memorialists and narrators of the memoir novels of the classical era addressing? A person? Their family? The public? Posterity? Themselves? Behind the variety of formulas and scenographies, the image of the recipient, whether stable or not, coherent or not, precise or more indefinite, collective or individual, is always a poetic creation, an invention. Is it the same on the side of factual writings and on the side of fictional writings? This volume, which is part of the program Recit et verite of which it constitutes the fourth part, continues a reflection on the relationship between factual and fictional narrative in the classical era. He considers it in its diversity and over a broad period which goes from Cardinal de Retz to Casanova, from Mme de Villedieu to Balzac, paying particular attention, in line with the work of Rene Demoris, to the Memoirs and memoir-novels of the 18th century. - Text in French.

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