De la Commune à l’anarchie de Charles Malato : le destin de l’écrivain libertaire
From the Commune to Anarchy by Charles Malato: the destiny of the libertarian writer

Summary/Abstract: Charles Malato has gone down in posterity as the author of novels, memoirs and especially plays in which he castigates the excesses of power. Two events are at the origin of the birth of Malato’svocation as an anarchist writer: the condemnation of his parentsto banishment in New Caledonia and the meeting of the youngCharles with Louise Michel. It is in this context that this articleproposes to study the autobiographical text of the French authorFrom the Commune to Anarchy which allows us to understandthe inner evolution of the somewhat carefree adolescent towardsdestiny of a revolutionary able to use his pen as a formidable weapon.From then on, the analysis of the text accounts for Malato’s politicalawareness and his subsequent involvement in social issues, as wellas highlighting the style of his language, as cruel as it is grotesque, whichwill upset the fragile minds of the bourgeois. In short, the explorationof the work constitutes a kind of propaedeutic to the subversive workof Malato whose universality attests to its undeniable topicality.

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