Vol. 4 No. 2 (2002)
Critica

"Être Chateaubriand ou rien". Aspects socio-culturels de la recherche d'absolu chez Victor Hugo

Fritz Peter Kirsch
Université de Vienne

Published 15-12-2002

How to Cite

Kirsch, F. P. (2002). "Être Chateaubriand ou rien". Aspects socio-culturels de la recherche d’absolu chez Victor Hugo. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 4(2), 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1556/verb.4.2002.2.3

Abstract

If observed from far (from Eastern Middle Europe, for instance), Victor Hugo's work might seem depending only and absolutely on French culture history. The author of this article shows that at the light of the theory of the civilisation process (N. Elias) this literature is born in the context of the monachic centralism when the renewal is necessary after the Revolution's pains, and so a new élite is emerging.