Une page de Giovanni Macchia

Abstract

In this essay on Baudelaire’s literary criticism, Giovanni Macchia returns to one of the main topics of his research. Macchia often uses monolog and fictional dialog as a device in his critic works. In his cross reading of Baudelaire’s critical article on Madame Bovary and a passage of Flaubert’s novel, he analyses the monolog that Baudelaire inserted in his review but that does not exist in the novel. In this essay, Macchia merges his own discourse with Flaubert’s and Baudelaire’s words, by translating and re-writing their texts quite freely.

Keywords

• Macchia (Giovanni)
• Flaubert (Gustave)
• Baudelaire (Charles)
• literary criticism
• monolog
• hysteria