Patrick Deville’s novel Plague and Cholera summons, through numerous explicit references and hidden quotes, the figure and the works of Rimbaud. It thus poeticises the character of the adventurer scientist Alexandre Yersin in a complex parallel upon which hinges the drift and the course of the novel, all the while creating a subtle discourse on Rimbaud – a figure at once partially deprived of his sacred aura and yet appearing as a major milestone in the history of disenchantment.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques