This article is the review of some critical articles of Stendhal, Gautier and Nerval which contain reports of operas, ballets and instrumental music concerts. The aim of this comparative analysis is to define the individual ...

Art is considered by Emile Zola as one of the crucial values, as well in his life as in his work. It appears there in many different ways: practical (collecting paintings, friendship with artists) and theoretic (critical ...

Marie Krysinska’s novel, La Force du désir, for the longest time was read as a roman à clef, an ironic depiction of the Parisian artistic milieu. Krysinska, a composer, poet, and a writer, exposes a society riddled with ...

This article introduces a deliberation on the nature and work of an ingenious artist. Frenhofer and Claude Lantier are both artists-painters that try to transcend – thanks to their talents – the limit of their art form. ...