La Correspondance : l'oeuvre majeure de Voltaire

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Résumé L’exceptionnelle fortune éditôriale et critique dé la Correspondance — alors que la poésie et le théâtre par exemple ne sont ni accessibles ni lus — en fait-elle l’oeuvre majeure de Voltaire ? Ce serait oublier son statut particulier : recueil toujours inachevé et lacunaire de fragments d’écriture pragmatique détournés de leur fin et de leur destination, la Correspondance n’est pas l’oeuvre de Voltaire — il n’a jamais imaginé une telle publication qui n’avait alors pas d’exemple —, mais celle de ses éditeurs successifs. Née de la volonté de témoigner de l’homme et d’éclairer l’oeuvre, la Correspondance est à côté de l’oeuvre, du côté de l’homme, de son rapport avec les autres et avec le langage : c’est à cette position spécifique qu’elle doit tout son intérêt.

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Authors: François Bessire iD
Published in: Revue d histoire littéraire de la France, vol. n o 99, no. 2, pp. 205-214
Publication date:01/02/1999
Publisher:Presses Universitaires De France
Document type:Article
Language:French
DOI: 10.3917/rhlf.g1999.99n2.0205
ISSN:0035-2411, 2105-2689
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Cited by:2
Subjects:
French Literature and Criticism (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory)
Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Philosophy)
Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory)
Voltaire, Correspondance, literary editing, editorial history, reception of Voltaire, authorship, 18th-century French literature
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