Accidental families: ritual and initiation in Horace and la comtesse de rudolstadt.(Critical Essay)

From: The Romanic Review | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Naginski, Isabelle Hoog | Copyright information

Crashing Through

Chapter 27 of Horace takes the reader to the Paris barricades. The revolt of June 1832, one of many between the two revolutions of 1830 and 1848, was by far the bloodiest. Sand, who witnessed the uprising, calls it "un drame poignant" in her Histoire de ma vie, and sees in its demise the birth of what she calls "le regne de la matiere." (1) Two decades later, in his Miserables, Hugo will distinguish this emeute from a full-fledged revolution by the very ...

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