Victor Hugo learnt poetry by reading and translating the Latin poets and kept inscribing them within his work. As an idealistic and humanistic project completing a tradition within which latinity is both matrix and emblem, the Hugolian palimpseste is an absolute masterpiece.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-8124-0285-2
EAN:9782812402852
ISSN: 2103-4672
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-4485-2
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 08-10-2011
Language: French
Keyword: Littérature de l'Antiquité, littérature du xixe siècle, Romantisme, histoire culturelle