LA « SAISON EN ENFER » DE SÁNDOR PETŐFI
Sándor Petőfi’s “Season in Hell”
Author(s): Guillaume MétayerSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Hungarian Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Romantic poetry; Ecclesiastes; Nietzsche;
Summary/Abstract: This collection of poems composed in 1845–46 offers the French reader a glance at a less familiar side of the work of Sándor Petõfi, marked by a strain of Romantic pessimism. The translator also finds in these poems the same radicalness (this time in the hopelessness) that characterizes the better known ideas of the revolutionary. The biblical references and the influence of Nietzsche (an influence acknowledged by Petõfi himself) placed the poet (and Hungary itself perhaps) at the crossroads of the shift to the modern.
- Issue Year: 27/2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 125-132
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French
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