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Hantise du présent, hantise du passé dans "Les Derniers rois mages" de Maryse Condé
No full textSpéro, the hero of Maryse Condé's "Les Derniers rois mages", is a queer, contradictory and complex character. Through the analysis of this novel, Simonetta Valenti in fact shows that the complexity and the opacity of this character, which is reflected in the Condé's style, are provoked by an 'identity quest' which reveals non only impossible, but ridiculous
Il "Faust" di Paul Valéry
No full textFaust is undoubtedly an important figure in European culture, since he influenced the cultural imaginary even out German frontiers. In XXth century French Literature, Faust has produced different interpretations, from which emerges, because of its originality, the one given by Paul Valéry, illustrated in the present essay by Simonetta Valenti
Un reve au Mont Blanc
No full textMagdeleine Gamba è probabilmente una delle prime - se non la prima - scrittrice valdostana di romanzi in lingua francese. Attiva nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento, pubblica nel 1856, a Ginevra, il suo primo romanzo "Le batard de Varsovie" e nel 1864 "Un reve au Mont Blanc", a Parigi. Simonetta Valenti ha rieditato l'edizione originale, corredata da un apparato di Note
Le portrait littéraire de Mallarmé dans "Le Soleil des Morts" de Camille Mauclair: vérité ou idéologie?
No full textThe character of Calixte Armel in "Le Soleil des Morts" (1898) is originated by a precise and conscious will of literary creation, the purpose of which is, in Mauclair's intention, to show his contemporaries the final evolution of Mallarmé's poetical experience. This is fondamentally the thesis illustrated by Simonetta Valenti in the present essay
L'espace francophone, une mosaique de langues et de cultures. Actes du Colloque International "Le Français, instrument de conservation et de transmission de la mémoire culturelle dans les réalités francophones". Université de la Vallée d'Aoste, 23-24 octobre 2010
No full textIn 1994, Robert Jouanny defined Francophone Space as "a moving and elusive space, submitted to laws and to conditions, typical of its occupants, which are in endless evolution. This space is the result of the convergence between historical and geographical data and individual and collective motivations." This diversity and at the same time this fondamental similarity are well represented - that's what we believe - in the present volume that gathers the Acts of the International Scientific Congress: "Le français, instrument de transmission de la mémoire culturelle dans les réalités francophones", which took place at the Université de la Vallée d'Aoste on the 23th and 24th October 2009
Francophonie européenne, "PONTS/PONTI"
No full textAperçu des dernières parutions concernant la littérature francophone européenne, à travers des compte-rendus
Partage de Midi
No full text"Partage de Midi" is generally considered by critics as the first authentic Claudel's masterpiece, born from the experience of the adulterous passion lived by the poet immediately after his conversion to Catholicism. In reality, it is an extremely actual drama, not only in consideration of the themes that are treated, but also in consideration of the theater techniques which are used. That is the reason why Simonetta Valenti has decided to make such a work, in the original version of 1906, the most accessible to the Italian public
Baudelaire, o la nostalgia dell'Assoluto
No full textThe publication of "Les Fleurs du Mal" (1857) by Charles Baudelaire marks in France the end of the great season of Romanticism and inaugurate a new cultural and stylistic sensibility. It is precisely this poetic novelty, revealed even by the structure of Baudelaire's masterpiece, that Simonetta Valenti tries to illustrate and to explain in the present essay
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