Napoléon mémorialiste, entre gloire et insignifiance ou « le plus grand homme dévoré d’inquiétude »

• Authors: Pohorský Aleš

Title variants

EN

NAPOLEON MEMORIALIST, BETWEEN GRANDEUR AND INSIGNIFICANCE

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

During his exile at island of Saint Helena, Napoleon is condemned to look back upon his life. Le Mémorial, dictated by Napoleon and edited by Las Cases, is the very foundation of Napoleonian legend. Napoleon mentions the ingratitude of those monarchs which he installed to the throne himself and who later denied him. The work is the bases of the legend that oscillates between monarchy and citizenship, the king and the nation and the dictatorship and liberty. As a literary work Le Mémorial inspired Musset, Chateaubriand, Mme de Staël, Bourrienne, la duchesse d’Abrantès, Balzac, Mme de Rémusat and many others. It has also influenced all European cultures, including Czech literature. The one, who “changed the world” died in solitude and obscurity, in deep meditation about his own failure.

Keywords

FR

Napoléon; Le Mémorial; Sainte-Hélène; légende; Jaroslav Hašek

EN

Napoleon; Memorial; Saint-Helen; legend; Jaroslav Hašek

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 53-63

Contributors

author

Pohorský Aleš

• Institut d’Études Romanes, Faculté des Lettres, Université Charles de Prague