Puškin et Napoléon
Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: André Monitor, Pushkin and Napoleon. This article studies the fluctuations of the Napoleonic theme in Pushkin's works. It distinguishes five realizations of it. The emperor is at First an anti-hero, a pure image of tyrannical violence. Then, during the South period of the writer, Napoleon becomes successively a genial conqueror, endowed with an exceptional destiny, the Saint Helena's exile who endured the sufferings of banishment, the immoral man who is taken as an example by Lord Byron's admirers. In Boldino at last, he changes himself into a sacred hero, thanks to his capacity for self-sacrifice. Each one of these representations is in harmony with a definite stage of Pushkin's poetical evolution and even anticipates it, as though this great historical theme were utilized by the author as a field of literary experiments.
Author: André Monnier
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1963962873