This article argues that Tristan Corbière, as much as poets like Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Victor Hugo, displays the sentimentalism typical of nineteenth-century romanticism. In this perspective, the irony of the author of Les Amours jaunes is a symptom of this very sentimentalism more than it is a sign of anti-sentimentalism, in that it dramatizes the painful separation between the subject and himself. For Corbière, irony and pathos are thus consubstantial.
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