From L’Académie to Le Nouveau Genre Itinerary of a comical “vagrancy”

Comedy is an important part of Nerval’s firsts literary tentatives: it contributes to the construction of his artistical identity. The plays L’Académie and Le Nouveau genre, which were written one year apart, have both surprizing form and purpose. Through a dialog game and opposition, these two comedies seem to create a metatheatrical diptych. This one reproduces the literary quarrel of the time, and gives a dramatical relay to the theoretical debate.