Entre désir, interdit et nostalgie : aspects du dépit amoureux à l’aube du vingtième siècle chez Alain-Fournier et Radiguet

Feelings which arise from heartaches have inspired numerous literary works, novels particularly. This phenomenon was probably at its height during the second half of the nineteenth century. Although the theme of unrequited love seemed to be hackneyed at the beginning of the twentieth century, Alain Fournier and Raymond Radiguet gave it a new lease by proposing different but original writing modes to present it: the former through nostalgia in Le Grand Meaulnes and the latter through constraint in Le Bal du Comte d’Orgel. This article aims to show how this was achieved