Lettre 33 Merteuil

1868 (sous forme de notes dans l'édition Pléiade, comportant les variantes de cette première version ainsi que celles du recueil collectif Parfums de l'âme publié par Evariste Carrance en 1869), les deux fascicules des Poésies ainsi que les sept lettres de la correspondance de Ducasse. L'édition du livre de Poche dispose d'une préface synthétique et complète offrant un vaste panorama des perspectives d'étude du texte et ouvre de nombreuses pistes. A ce titre, elle constitue un outil de travail, une

literature was still equated with learning, a body of civilized and civilizing erudition, and the term continued to be used in this sense a hundred years later. But after 1700, littérature became an occupation, even a preoccupation. ‘Les gens de lettres’, normally a pejorative term, were authors who did not restrict themselves to imaginative writing but were concerned with a range of theological, philosophical, historical and scientific matters too. By about 1750, when the word was also current for

(1667), autorul unui tratat clasic care fixează „regula celor trei unităţi”, care formulează în acelaşi secol clasic şi regulile artei epistolare, schiţând şi un model de intrigă, strângând variantele posibile ale ficţiunii: ,Nouveau Roman composé de lettres et billets pour apprendre à bien parler la langue française... et s’entretient dans les conversations „. În 1669 apăreau Scrisorile călugăriţei portugheze care pentru cititorii moderni funcţionează ca autentice, dar având în vedere modelul şi supralicitarea