In these four letters, Musset adopts the mask of a fake courier of readers’ mail while making a mockery of his fictive letter-writers. However, the author ends up lifting off the masks: the tone of false simplicity evolves towards a more open polemic, which is finally annulled in the last letter, which reconnects with the disenchanted discourse of a child of the century who lays himself bare. Behind its apparent derision, this masterpiece of romantic irony reveals the schizé conscience of its author.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques