This article seeks to show through micrological analysis of Rimbaud’s « Forgeron » (1870) the extent to which the poet indirectly conjures up the actuality of his own fraught era under the auspices of a 1792 episode from the French Revolution. What one finds in the folds of this historical parallax is nothing short of the seeds of the poet’s later engagement with the Commune, germinating as early as the autumn of 1870.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-12727-7
EAN:9782406127277
ISSN: 2262-2268
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12727-7.p.0123
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-09-2022
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Government of National Defense, Napoléon III, the Second Empire, Socialism, Anticlericalism, Republicanism