Amitiés épistolaires entre littérature et politique
Résumé
Amitiés épistolaires entre littérature et politique [Epistolary Friendships between Literature and Politics], to be published in 2024. (Symposium. University of Haute-Alsace, 08-09/06/2023.)
It is tempting to draw an analogy between the situation of correspondence, a genre often considered to be on the fringes of the literary work, and politics, often marginalised (which is not to say excluded) from literature by purity-loving theorists. What, then, can we learn from the history of relations between politics and literature when the friendship between men of letters and statesmen is manifested not outside the work, but in its epistolary “periphery”?