ÎNTRE DOCUMENTARE ŞI OPINIE. SCRIITORI STRĂINI ÎN PRESA SECOLULUI AL XIX-LEA
BETWEEN DOCUMENTARIES AND OPINION. FOREIGN WRITERS IN THE XIXTH CENTURY PRESS

Summary/Abstract: Between Documentaries and Opinion. Foreign Writers in the XIXth Century Press. The paper demonstrates how major writers of the 19th century (such as Balzac. Hugo, D'Aurevilly, Lamennais, Sue, Flaubert, and Zola) document and use press in order to disseminate various personal ideas, regardless to democratic, social or religious matters. In many of these cases short time newspapers and magazines are issued just in order to sustain pending personal or collective battles, so the militant tone of these publications and the wish to please the public put behind, in many cases, factual details and objective documentation. In some cases (Balzac’s, with the Peytel trial, or Zola’s with the Dreyfus affair) the implication is focused onto political confrontations, with various outcomes. The ultimate goal of the paper is to demonstrate how everyday, sometimes senzationalist political and social details previously outlined in press confrontations go into the texture of some great novels of the 19th century, which, by their length and plot, provide their authors the chance to develop earlier press releases into more elaborate, realist structures or to expand them towards fiction.

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