Barbey d'Aurevilly thought Les Fleurs du Mal had "a secret architecture". The same dream haunts those who love Gaspard de la Nuit. J. Bony, who thought he spotted an organization of the pieces from the number 17, risked an interpretation. Others have been put forward by J. Céard, A. Houplain and the author of these lines. It is a question here of reopening the file with two questions: What to do in the face of a "fact" possibly due to chance? What is a supposedly convincing interpretation?
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques