Patrie, contre-révolution, romantisme. Xavier de Maistre et la Savoie perdue
Fatherland, counter-revolution, romanticism. Xavier de Maistre and his lost Savoy

Summary/Abstract: The literary works of Xavier de Maistre, savoyard writer and painter of the turn of 18th and 19th centuries, are strictly connected to the era in which the author has lived, particularly in the way of considering concepts of fatherland and nature, landscape. A trauma, related to the invasion of French revolutionary forces in Savoy pushed de Maistre into the counter‐revolutionary camp and stimulated narrative reflections upon the themes of homeland, nature, and political change. His works, such as Voyage autour de ma chambre and Expédition nocturne autour de ma chambre, written between 1794 and 1825, show a particular evolution of the author’s point of view, starting from a classical, objectifying approach, inherited from the Enlightenment, to transform finally towards a subjective, individual scope, specific to the romanticism. To discover the motors and instruments of this evolution of the author’s mind is the object of this paper.

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