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peuvent passer pour réels, et que "Gérard de Nerval s'intéresse autant au monde réel qu'à l'univers imaginaire. Il en est conscient dans sa lucidité" (432). Conclusion un peu décevante pour des textes aussi riches. Hawthorne, Melanie C. Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. XII + 304. ISBN 0803224028 Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin At the beginning of her rich and suggestive study of the writer known variously as Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery, and Marguerite Vallette, Melanie Hawthorne recounts an anecdote that illustrates her work's distance from older biographies that juxtaposed a writer's life and work as separate if interdependent entities. One July, she arrived in Périgueux, Rachilde's birthplace, only to find that the departmental archives would close in two days. Sitting in a café, she found herself fantasizing that the café owner would recognize her as a scholar and send her to talk to an old-timer who could tell her all about the "real" Rachilde. Even at the time, Hawthorne recognized this as a "Bmovie fantasy." But giving it up meant also abandoning a dream of writing "the kind of biography [she] had read
Nineteenth Century French Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Nov 14, 2005
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