Republic of Letters - Respublica Literaria.UPS 3285
ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm. 75005 Paris
Salle Weil, April 29, 2011, 2:30 pm
The 20th-century rediscovery of Marivaux as a playwright who, along with Beaumarchais, became the emblem of French comic theater during the Enlightenment, has obscured the rest of his work, except for the novel. Contemporary stages like to recreate a fantastic Marivaux. But the real Marivaux, from his diaries and miscellaneous works to his first production before 1720 and his addiction to theater, remains largely unknown. From the young writer in revolt to the melancholy moralist, we can draw a line that places him on the margins of a modernity at odds with itself. The enlightened world of the Enlightenment regarded him as an unclassifiable phenomenon: a rationality subject to the vagaries of the heart, a social philosophy of benevolence and "sympathy", an aesthetic of the mask more than of unveiling made Marivaux a happily elusive writer.
François Moureau, Professor of French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University: Marivaux: a literary heresiarch?
François Trémolières, lecturer at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense: Marivaux and Fénelon
Françoise Rubellin, Professor of French Literature at the University of Nantes: Marivaux burlesque
Pierre Frantz, Professor of French Literature, Université Paris-Sorbonne: The strangeness of Marivaux's theater
Françoise Gevrey, Professor of French Literature, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne: The aesthetics of pleasure in La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu
Alexis Lévrier, lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne: The "tatters without order" of L'Indigent philosophe, or the gamble of radicality
Conclusions: Marc Fumaroli, member of the Institut de France, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France.
Contact: Dominique Simon 01 44 32 36 26 - 06 63 89 18 94
dominique.simon@ens.fr
