Vanity, in its most general representation, invites us to stop for a moment our race ahead, to set aside our various actions and to ask ourselves about our destiny. Literature, painting often focuses on the fragility of life. It is compared to a breath, a vapor that appears for a short time. Earthly goods, worldly pleasures seem vain and ephemeral and the incessant quest of man equally illusory. Raoul Danaho, in his novel Every hour hurts, published in 1968 evokes the story of a young man who seeks his own identity and his own place in the world. Albert, this man from Cayenne, ended up in Paris, but he did not find the desired tranquility. There is no attraction to life in his eyes. He must "strive to live". It feels empty, unable to merge ...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
Le mildiou de la pomme de terre, causé par l'agent pathogène Phytophthora infestans est l'une des ma...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
La vanité, dans sa représentation la plus générale, nous invite à arrêter quelques instants notre co...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French eroti...
At the casino, Frédérique abandons herself to the roulette wheel, which gives her a protective “out ...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
Duras’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man reali...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau is a Bildungsroman centred around pedagogical ...
Georges Bataille and Hubert Aquin both explore a mystical experience displaying strong similarities,...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...
Florimont, by Aimon de Varennes, a 12th-century Lyonnais author, seems to have been written in 1188,...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
Le mildiou de la pomme de terre, causé par l'agent pathogène Phytophthora infestans est l'une des ma...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...
La vanité, dans sa représentation la plus générale, nous invite à arrêter quelques instants notre co...
According to Emil Cioran, every human being is “full of the conviction that all is vain.” But Cioran...
The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, ref...
Could vanities be the overlooked essence of so-called ‘libertine’ fiction? 18th century French eroti...
At the casino, Frédérique abandons herself to the roulette wheel, which gives her a protective “out ...
At its peak in the 17th century, Vanity, thanks to its codification, persists beyond that age favour...
Duras’s work is a deep reflection on the emptiness of the human condition. In her works, a man reali...
This paper examines the way in which Marivaux, in The Life of Marianne, plays at “making it true” by...
Les Neuf Consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau is a Bildungsroman centred around pedagogical ...
Georges Bataille and Hubert Aquin both explore a mystical experience displaying strong similarities,...
As a substitute father figure, a mentor, a tutor and a writer to be admired and imitated, Barbey d’A...
Florimont, by Aimon de Varennes, a 12th-century Lyonnais author, seems to have been written in 1188,...
This article aims to highlight the importance of memory in the poetic practice of Léopold Sédar Seng...
Le mildiou de la pomme de terre, causé par l'agent pathogène Phytophthora infestans est l'une des ma...
By its mimetic exaggeration, the caricature could seem incompatible with the aesthetics of realism, ...