Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Saint-Pol-Roux’debt towards George Sand is the focus of this paper through an analysis of L’Âme noire du prieur blanc (The Black Soul of the White Prior), a little-known “monodrama”, which the “magnificent” playwright-cum-poet published in 1893 and which expresses, under the guise of a “naïve legend”, the heterodoxy of his religious views. If this play has at times been seen as close to Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Axël, it is to a novel by George Sand, Spiridion, that it actually owes a great number of its themes. This intertextuality between two authors one would not think at first to bring together reveals a common belief in the mystical socialism of Pierre Leroux, of whom George Sand said she was an enthusiastic disciple. These layers of influence give Saint-Pol-Roux’play a depth that had heretofore gone unnoticed and signals doctrinaire romanticism’s extraordinary posterity.
Source: Romantisme
DOI: 10.3917/rom.195.0005
Authors: Philippe Hamon, Vincent Jouve
Language: French
Topic: French Literature and Poetry
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4226452365