Casanova defended the “whimsicalities” of his writing, and liked to “write without rhyme or reason.” Purposely eclectic, the studies collected here are concerned with the contradictions of a thought as it rebounds from an experience, and with the extreme instability of an unclassifiable body of work.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-8124-5137-9
EAN:9782812451379
ISSN: 2103-5636
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5139-3
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 12-27-2016
Language: French
Keyword: Littérature du xviiie siècle, histoire des idées, autobiographie, stratégies d'écriture, libertinage, aventuriers des Lumières, polygraphie
