Le Melmoth réconcilié de Balzac Une étape dans l’élaboration d’une poétique neuve

The project of a long work based on the principle of a returning character was developed by Balzac in the period of returning to Maturin’s Melmoth and the writing of Melmoth réconcilié. An examination of the singularities of the first text and its properly Balzacian aspects allows us to highlight how its principles of composition were reinvented. This production then becomes a microstructure revealing a new Balzacian poetics that was being developed during the period when it was written.