While the expression langue commune occurs infrequently in Gerard de Nerval’s work, the theme runs through his work in a dialogue constantly reinvigorated by the linguistic reflections of his time, whether those are aesthetic, political or philological. Between the disillusioned observations made about a literary language that is becoming trivial and the nostalgia for a lost popular language, Nerval’s work sees the construction of a project for a linguistic communion that is to be reconstructed.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques