Histoire du Roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux Une polyphonie journalistique ?

This article analyzes the link between eccentric and journalistic poetics as it appears in the Histoire du Roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux (1830). In three chapters dealing with the supposed reception of the work in the press, Nodier's satirical ambition is obvious, but his writing is also informed by a properly journalistic form of collage. More broadly, the novel conveys something of the polyphony of a press where all authorship is unstable.