Chateaubriand et la vanité : varietas ou pari pascalien ?
Journal Title: Quêtes littéraires - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 8
Abstract
"Chateaubriand and Vanity: Varietas or Pascalian Bet?" ABSTRACT: Chateaubriand’s work is a paradox: he was accused of being vain although he endlessly fought against vanity; he used all the meanings of the word vanity, this, contrary to contemporaneous writers or predecessors like Rousseau and Retz. Hence these questions: Should we reduce his work to a vain and egocentric rhetorical exercise full of brilliance and profusion, varietas, or should we consider its author as the heir of a moralist like Pascal and therefore an “incomprehensible monster” during his century.
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Marie-Christine Alix Garneau de l’Isle-Adam
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