Stello presents dialogue between a doctor and a poet overwhelmed by a “crisis of sadness and affliction” on a night in 1832. The Black-Doctor tells of the death of three poets in the eighteenth century. These historical stories furnish the foundation for the solitary martyr thinker type. Here Vigny diagnoses the “disenchantment” of a generation.
Keyword: Roman, poète-misère, XIXe siècle, littérature française, romantisme, littérature et politique, terreur, André Chénier, Thomas Chatterton, Nicolas Gilbert
