By the time Émile Zola published Madeleine Férat (1868), the motif of the amorous courtesan was already a Romantic cliché. The future leader of the Naturalists therefore wished to distance himself from an outdated concept ...

In Rue du pardon (Street of Forgiveness), Mahi Binebine presents us with a marvellous tale in which a child confronts the ugliness of his pitiless environment and the monstrosity of his failing parents, guilty of a double ...

The theory of self-recognition of the female universe elaborated by Hélène Cixous in the essay The laugh of the Medusa1975) together with the mechanisms of postcolonial alienation analyzed by Franz Fanon in The Damned of ...

The novels of Marcel Proust and Georges Perec present kitsch under the states of principles and modes according to the theoretical grid developed by Abraham Moles. This study therefore drew conceptual resources from the ...

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt's “Cycle de l’invisible” is a series of eight novels published between 1997 and 2019. It is composed of short stories, each of which questions spirituality through the prism of an initiatory journey ...

This paper discusses the image of the city of Bruges, as represented in Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach’s novels Bruges-la-Morte (1892) and Le Carillonneur (1897). By acquiring the dimension of a full-fledged character, ...

Nous essayons de définir l’horizon de la pensée de Jean Starobinski en rendant compte de manière commentée des deux langages de la modernité. Jean Starobinski entre littérature et science, par Aldo Trucchio publié par BHMS ...

In Crommelynck's Le Cocu magnifique, the night is not merely an external detail as for many pieces whose most important actions are set in a nocturnal setting. Paradoxically, this work, which takes place mainly in daytime ...

This article aims to propose the need to approach Francesco Petrarca's Opera Omnia as a single text, fragmented into different individual works. I will demonstrate that its unity is not in extratextual, historical or ...

This paper explores the situation of Spanish heritage speakers in Switzerland who have chosen to study Spanish as a foreign language at high school. Specifically, this contribution aims to explore: a) the reasons they had ...