Nerval et les limbes de L'histoire : Lecture Des 'Illumines'

Les Illumines is a compendium of six portraits, each depicting a philosophical eccentric. Careful reading of each portrait reveals the sharpness of Nerval's interrogations on History and historical time in the aftermath of the French Revolution. By placing himself against the rupture of modern History, Nerval suggests that another time remains, Limbos, which preserves a possible survival of dreams, unsuccessfully completed in the past, but still fertile for the future. French text.