“Introduction. Poétique et politique épistolaires de l’amitié”
Résumé
“Introduction. Poétique et politique épistolaires de l’amitié” [“Introduction. The Epistolary Poetics and Politics of Friendship”], Régine Battiston, Nikol Dziub and Augustin Voegele (Eds.), Amitiés épistolaires entre littérature et politique [Epistolary Friendships between Literature and Politics], to be published in 2025. (Symposium. University of Haute-Alsace, 08-09/06/2023.)
Friendship is supposed to be based on equality between friends. But is this condition of equality achievable when the friendship links a statesman and a writer? Can epistolary rhetoric be used as a negotiating tool to re-establish a form of balance between such friends? These are the central questions of this volume.