À LA RECHERCHE DE L’AUTHENTICITÉ LA LETTRE ET SON DESTIN LITTÉRAIRE
Searching for authenticity. The letter and its literal destiny

Summary/Abstract: The letter plays an interesting role in the history of literature, especially in the history of Frenchliterature, contributing in a way to its authenticity. Its usual universal communication role gives to theletter an interesting status in the French literary text emphasizing the sense of reality and credibility.The writers used letters in different ways especially in their novels. We can find in French literaturequotations of letters, letters included entirely and even novels made by letters, etc.By reading letters or fragments of letters, or even mails, which are included in a literal text, thepublic is let believe that there is something true, authentic in that text, something that approacheshim to the authenticity of the written text. In our paper we tried to trace a part of the letter’s destinyin French literature, since Middle Ages till nowadays

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