Abstract: This article studies section 1 of Littérature, which covers Racine, Choderlos de Laclos, Nerval, and C.-L. Philippe, from a stylistic point of view. These highly polemical texts enable us to interrogate Giraudoux’s poetic and aesthetic choices, the power of language when confronted by a literature that has been dispossessed of its vital flux, and the poetic force of the word and its capacity for subversion; topics that would be concerns for Giraudoux throughout his entire oeuvre. The publication of this collection in 1941 lends a particular force to these texts.
