De la Littérature à la Vie

Medieval times, Modern times

Literature is the art of telling the real or translating a human experience according to the poetic imagination. As such, literature belongs to some historical context. This implies social facts and phenomena, certainly, but also an aesthetic specificity and individual writing. This very general view of the literature essentially determines the nature of the studies gathered in this compendium. They deal with major texts and authors, as well as with some problems that were, or still remain, in the heart of the intellectual preoccupations of different epochs from the Middle Ages to the present day. Despite their diversity and even their thematic dispersion, these studies show a constant concern: to think the real by means of literature...

Stoyan Atanassov