TY - JOUR
TI - Edmond Rostand or the Quest for Lost Communion
AU - Vogel, Géraldine
TI - Edmond Rostand or the Quest for Lost Communion
AB - For Edmond Rostand, dramatic writing is a medium ensuring communion between the author and the spectator, a bond questioned by Plato. This article studies how Edmond Rostand’s poetic plays illustrate the quest for the public’s understanding of the poet and how the characters thrive for their lost social recognition. His works shed light on the poet at work, each of the characters being an accomplished or budding versifier to reveal that poetry is legitimate work, which requires skills. Edmond Rostand’s poetic style deconstructs literary and social norms that have led to his contemporaries’ loss of authenticity. Misunderstood by theater goers and critics, disappointment led the playwright to improvisation and to pantomime, in which gestures could not alter the fragile and fleeting idea, making poetry easier to comprehend and bridging the gap between the author and his audience, establishing the poet as a worthy citizen again.
VL - 2023
IS - Numéro 34
PY - 2023
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 35
EP - 53
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.23.010.17927
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/voie-negative-vue-negative-edmond-rostand-ou-la-communion-perdue
KW - Edmond Rostand
KW - loss
KW - poet
KW - seduce / seduction