L’hybridité culturelle dans l’œuvre lyrique d’Anna de Noailles
Cultural Hybridity in the Lyrical Work of Anna de Noailles

Summary/Abstract: During her lifetime, Anna de Noailles (1876-1933), a French poetess, was one of the most famous authors in the literary world at the beginning of the 20th century. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of the Romanian prince Gregoire Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan and his Greek-born wife Rachel Musurus. Anna Élisabeth grew up in an aristocratic and intellectual environment. Since the great success of her first volume of poems, Le Cœur Innombrable (1901), her texts have been enthusiastically received by literary critics. In 1921, the French Academy awarded her the Grand Prix of Literature. Anna de Noailles was a bearer of a multitude of cultural patterns as she was not only a daughter of immigrants, but also raised in a cosmopolitan environment in Paris. Both France, her home country, and her Greco-Romanian origins can therefore be considered as significant sources of inspiration for her writing. In this paper, we examine how the hybrid cultural identity of the Countess de Noailles is inscribed as a subtext in her lyrical work through an in-depth analysis of a few poems.

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