This article studies a poem by Musset, “À Julie,” as closely as possible, dating according to him back to 1832 but only published twenty years later. It shows that this text, cut during proofing for being too obviously autobiographical, does not express at first, as has often been said, an indifference (also peculiar to this author), but a moment of despair and real obsession with literary sterility.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques