The Balzacian portrait is a privileged moment when reflection on romanesque practice crystallizes. It is constructed in an articulation between the horizon of the fine arts—poetry and painting—and the physiognomonic vocabulary of the study. These frictions foster the transition toward an ideal of expressivity of the body that, while breaking with the neoclassical canons of beauty, imports a new poetry into the prose novel.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques