Comedy is dead . . . Long live comedy! In his dramatic feuilletons, Barbey d’Aurevilly subjects contemporary comedy to a fierce trial; according to him, the comedy of the day irreparably degrades the Grand Siècle ideal of comedy. This antimodern knows how to salute the resuscitated gaiety and the comic genius that is reborn from its ashes, in work by Labiche or at the circus, in the acting, the body, and the very costumes of the actors as well as in the pages of a novel, even in the private space of his own correspondence.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques