Écrire la liberté, libérer l’écriture : les défis (littéraires) de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
Writing Freedom, Liberating Writing: The (Literary) Challenges of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the aspects of freedom in the work of Villiers de l ’ Isle-Adam, understood in three interrelated ways: as a fictional theme, as a challenge the writer sets himself in the face of historical upheavals and the pursuit of his literary career, and as a modern approach to writing aimed at a poetic and musical effects. In Villiers ’ s theatre, the struggle for collective freedom is intertwined with the construction of a dream of power. The apprehension of individual freedom stems from idealism and aims at inner freedom opposed to the libertarian paroxysm. The monarchical nostalgia of Villiers the aristocrat is expressed through symbolic gestures and an attitude affirming his freedom from the bourgeois world. To liberate his writing from generic rules, Villiers tends to give it a poetic and musical dimension through punctuation and stylistic choices.

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