Abstract: On 26th february, 1886, the Comédie-Française celebrates Hugo’s birthday anniversary with a short occasional play by Renan, le Dialogue des morts. The authors of the XVIIth and XVIIIth century, in the elysian fields, are celebrating the expected birth of the next genius of french literature. This occasional work is also literary theory indeed : it cancels the usual artificial opposition between classicism and romanticism, and promotes an appeased vision of national literary history.
Number of pages: 215
ISBN:978-2-406-12629-4
ISSN: 2540-3303
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12629-4.p.0033
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: Renan, Hugo, Comédie-Française, occasional play, classicism, romanticism, literary history
