{"product_id":"ils-lont-dit-avant-nous-presence-des-classiques","title":"They said it before us: Presence of the classics. ","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv id=\"description-content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Thirty-six years after Jean Paulhan's book entitled\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn The Flowers of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTarbes or Terror in Letters\u003c\/em\u003e , which in 1900 analyzed a phenomenon permeating the literary avant-garde, the idea of literature as a place of absolute subjectivity, André Gide recalled that man is not an island and that it is by yielding to the \"influence\" of foreign forces that he has a chance of discovering something new in himself. At the same time, after philology had given pride of place to the search for sources, criticism was going to develop a broader theory, baptized with the name of intertextuality, positing that any text can be read as the integration and transformation of one or more hypo-texts.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmong the vast field of influences that irrigates the literary world in the multiple forms that the relationship between text and text can take, there is a vein whose matrix function has long been recognized: it is the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClassical tradition\u003c\/em\u003e , explored by Gilbert Highet in a masterwork published in 1957 and covering large swathes of Greco-Latin influence on European literature. In a field limited to what the philosopher Rémi Brague called, in 1992, the \"Roman Way\", the author of this book, inspired by Dante's words celebrating the author of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e , \"this source which opens such a great river of language\" ( \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e , I, 79), wanted to offer not an inventory but, as an incentive, a list of the forces at work in this process of creative appropriation of a heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47889253368132,"sku":"30371","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/files\/8496.1702651079.jpg?v=1706879311","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/ils-lont-dit-avant-nous-presence-des-classiques","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}