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    Madame de Stael, Oeuvres complètes, Des circonstances actuelles et autres essais politiques sous la Révolution

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    This volume contains works published during the author’s lifetime, unpublished works and posthumous ones. It is a critical edition which involves the variants between the different versions edited by the author and the autograph corrections of the unpublished texts. It also includes an accurate critical apparatus. As regards the unpublished works, dating has been difficult for want of precise records. This volume presents the development of Mme de Staël’s political thought, from her first juvenile essays to her treatise Des circonstances actuelles. It shows her republican beliefs, her liberalism, and her crucial role in defining the notions of modern democracy and of “avant la lettre”-European culture. By collecting all her known political works, it helps value this role, which she was only belatedly acknowledged. Prominent historians such as B. Baczko e L. Jaume have contributed to the revaluation of the author as a main representative of the political thought of the Directoire and Thermidor period. My edition of Circonstances actuelles, also revised in the light of some unpublished texts, makes it a typical text of liberal thought

    Introduction aux Actes

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    It would be useless to want to contain fragmented writing within a rigid theoretical framework as this phenomenon escapes systematization because of its paradoxical nature. Production in this fileld is very diversified. Some fragmentary writings are defined as such only because they reached us in this form, like the texts of Antiquity, often lacunar because of the dispersion of their corpus. Others, belonging to literary modernity, remained unfinished because of the the writer’s death. Others also have sometimes a fragmentary appearance without necessarily occupying a place of right in this writing typology, such as the short form, the maxim, the aphorism and even the romantic fragment. Finally, some works in fragments do not appear to aim at a full preliminary totality or to maintain some illusion of completeness. However paradoxical it may seem, the fragment becomes then a condition and purpose of the work of art, claiming the loss of the totality. Can one imagine to put some order in this category of transgeneric discourse ? It is one of the challenges under consideration in this Conference

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    Numero monografico della Rivista della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università Ca'Foscari di Venezi
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