Author : Alfred de Vigny
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-13 : 9782218971723
Language : French
Pages : 160
Publisher : Hatier
Publishing Date : September 2013
Series : Chatterton
Size : 12.6 x 0.8 x 17.5 cm
Subject : French
Weight : 200g

In London, in 1770, Chatterton, a penniless young poet, occupies a room with the wealthy industrialist John Bell. The precariousness of his living conditions hampers his creative genius and the comfort provided by the love of Kitty Bell is not enough to save him from despair.
This romantic drama, which Vigny described as a "drama of thought", offers one of the first representations of the figure of the "accursed poet" in the face of materialism and the individualism of society.

The prefacer
Oliver Rohe, contemporary novelist, returns, in his preface, to the figure of the writer in the grip of isolation which still haunts literature today.

The dossier
By Sophie Vanden Abeele, lecturer in 19th century literature at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.
Three reading tracks: 1. The structure of the play, 2. The characters: martyrs and executioners, 3. A drama of thought.

Alfred de vigny Chatterton Texte intergral

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