Georges Lys’s short story “Affaire d’honneur” (Le Journal illustré, June 1896) playfully illustrates a discussion on the nature of poetry, which fails to impress the archetypal poète maudit, the Saturnian Névérail. The latter leaves the café, leaving the theorists to pay his check; the swindled theorists’ insults then provoke the anger of Buridan, Névérail’s friend, and a duel ensues, which ends when the headstrong young poet soon surrenders to tend to his wounds.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-10091-1
EAN:9782406100911
ISSN: 2426-8860
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10091-1.p.0055
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-24-2020
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: Paul Verlaine, nineteenth-century literature, symbolism, literary sociability, roman à clef