Le docteur Puf et Brillat-Savarin : entre gastronomie et jeu philosophico-littéraire

“ Doctor Puf” and Brillat-Savarin : The Art of Cookery as a Literary-philosophical Game. this paper analyses the intertextual connection between odoevsky’s text Doctor Puf’s Cookery Lessons (1844-1845), the first example of cookery literature in russia, and brillat-Savarin’s The Physiology of Taste (1826). the intertextual connections between odoevsky’s work and brillat-Savarin’s Physiology are of various kinds : definite quotations, quotations, translations or summary of some of the French text’s passages without any reference to the author’s name. the most interesting intertextual procedure, however, is the personification, the concretization of some of brillat-Savarin’s precepts and statements in the very character of doctor Puf. the present study outlines only some of the themes that characterize Doctor Puf’s Cookery Lessons, an extremely rich and complex work, that deserves further attention.Venditti Michela, Baudin Rodolphe. Le docteur Puf et Brillat-Savarin : entre gastronomie et jeu philosophico-littéraire. In: Revue Russe n°44, 2015. Manger russe. pp. 75-85