Bohemians and academics A cross-reading of Charles Demailly, Sapho and Le Calvaire

In the new genre that is the bohemian novel, the themes of the impotence of the artist, material poverty and sentimental oppression bring to light a new literary spring: the hegemony of prose over poetry. From Goncourt to Proust, through Daudet, Huysmans and Mirbeau, the same common thread stretches, woven by exclusively female hands, which embroiders around the literary procedures of transposition, adaptation and exploitation of the human document.