La Confession d’un enfant du siècle, Servitude et grandeur militaires From the press to literary history

Literary history readily lumps together La Confession d’un enfant du siècle and Servitude et grandeur militaires. Both are personal works characterized by the intimate experience of the authors and both present certain characteristics of romantic disenchantment. Returning to the reception of these two narratives in the press, we see that critics have brought to light aesthetic specificities that have caused literary history to see a game of comparisons perhaps to the point of distorting the singularity of the two works.