Correspondence between literature and politics

Do literature and politics go hand in hand? Can literary figures and statesmen truly be friends, despite the gulf between their respective positions and despite the formalities of protocol? Can literature serve as common ground between them? Is the epistolary form a space for dialogue conducive to such rapprochements?

From Voltaire to François Mauriac, via, amongst others, Louise d’Épinay, George Sand and André Gide, and from Catherine II to General de Gaulle, via Armand Barbès, Manuel Teixeira Gomes and Stalin, this volume explores the fluctuations, both in time and space, of these relationships between writers and political figures.

Éditions et Presses universitaires de Reims, 2024

ISBN: 9782374962238

320 pages