Un article de Steve Murphy, tout d'abord, paru le 6 novembre, dans le numéro 63 d'Histoires littéraires en hommage à Jean-Jacques Lefrère : "Les dess(e)ins de Louis Bertrand"
Un livre (en anglais) de Valentina Gosetti, ensuite, entièrement consacré à Gaspard de la Nuit, qui paraîtra le 21.
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842)
is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of
the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those
interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the
collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively
through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the
prose poem. By placing Bertrand back in his original context, adopting a
comparative approach and engaging with recent critical work on the
collection, Valentina Gosetti proposes a substantial reassessment of Gaspard de la Nuit and
promotes a new understanding of Bertrand in his own terms, rather than
those of his successors. Through his playful and ironic reinterpretation
of Romantic clichés, and his overt defiance of the boundaries of poetry
and beauty, Bertrand emerges as a fascinating figure in his own right.
Valentina Gosetti holds the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford.
