| Titre | Un duel entre deux romantiques : Herzen et Herwegh | |
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| Auteur | Ulrich Schmid | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 83, no 1, 2012 Alexandre Herzen (1812-1870). Son époque, sa postérité | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 109-121 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A Duel Between Two Romantics Herzen and Herwegh
Between 1849 and 1852, Herzen experienced a family drama that acquired symbolical meaning for his interpretation of the failed 1848 revolutions in Europe. The German revolutionary bard Georg Herwegh, originally a brother in arms for Herzen's cause, had intruded into his marriage and seduced his wife Natalie who in November 1849 had a miscarriage – the child was probably Herwegh's, and Herzen would not know about this unborn child during his lifetime. Both authors couched the family drama into literary plots that were provided by George Sand. However, they chose different novels and fictional characters in order to present their own role as favourably as possible. Their public and private behaviour was based on a Romantic conception that should provide a legitimation for their situation. The literary encoding of the conflict proved to be so powerful that, from 1843, Herzen chose not to include a scene of adultery into his autobiography and Herwegh still refused in 1872 to produce Natalie's love letters. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2012_num_83_1_8172 |
