Restif de la Bretonne et Gérard de Nerval : (auto)biographies excentriques
Restif de la Bretonne and Gérard de Nerval: Eccentric (Auto)biographies

Summary/Abstract: This present article highlights haw the writer of Les Illuminés defies the genre of the biography and of the autobiography, transgresses the constraints of the biographical genre and dissimulates the gap between him and his biographies’, story of life and work, hence the lack of boundaries between history and fiction, reality and imagination, true and false. The biography of the other, synonymous with disguised autobiography, becomes in Nervalian aesthetic a personal semantic matrix: from the social to the individual, from the knowledge to the experience, from the historic time to the individual time, from the reality to the fiction and vice versa everything is, to the feather of Nerval, moved or off-centered.

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