« Mais le sablier est devant moi… » (Chateaubriand)
Chateaubriand did draw an analogy, even an relationship based on homology, between the genre of vanity painting and the Mémoires d’outre-tombe. Evincing an ambivalent attitude towards mortality, he makes of time the material of an œuvre which he builds like a monument or even an epitaph dedicated to...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/376 |
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