Vie imaginaire et poétique du roman au XIXe siècle : la Notice biographique de Louis Lambert

"Louis Lambert's Biographical Note": Genesis of the Genre of the Imaginary Life and Poetics of the Novel in the 19th Century In the 19th century, biography lost much of its rhetorical uses to the historical approach; and in France, it subsumed the individual under the collective. "Louis Lambert", as its initial title shows, respects the new norm of biography, while tending towards myth; yet it defends the individual and is as such literary.Gefen Alexandre. Vie imaginaire et poétique du roman au XIXe siècle : la Notice biographique de Louis Lambert. In: Littérature, n°128, 2002. Biographiques. pp. 3-25