Could the “Splendid Hotel” mentioned in “Après le Déluge” be one of the places in the “Splendid History” that Rimbaud evokes in his letter to Jules Andrieu of 16 April 1874? Their shared splendour is part of “The same bourgeois magic” through which the bourgeoisie exercises and relates its power, and it is this historical vision that the poet sets out to show and dismantle by inverting the meaning of the crushing of the Paris Commune and the radiance of the Crystal Palace.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-16599-6
EAN:9782406165996
ISSN: 2262-2268
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-16599-6.p.0173
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-10-2024
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: “Après le Déluge”, colonialism, The Paris Commune, the Crystal Palace, historicity