Historical Leaders, Ideal Leaders ; Dirigeants historiques, dirigeants idéaux

Of all great historical figures, that of the leader is the most salient, as he (or, more rarely, she) seems capable of embodying the very best or (sometimes simultaneously) the very worst of his country's essence. As a result, biographies of leaders are as much political programs as historical research, as if the writers reverted to the genre of "Lives." This special issue of the periodical "Great Historical Figures in the Letters and the Arts" wishes to examine various twentieth- or twenty-first-century writers who used biographies of historical leaders as platforms to articulate their own vi... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Boulanger, Alison
Mcintosh-Varjabédian, Fiona
Dokumenttyp: other
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Verlag/Hrsg.: HAL CCSD
Schlagwörter: Jeanne d'Arc / Léon Blois / Roosevelt / Wilson / Ebert / Scheidemann / Noske / Karl Liebknecht / Rosa Luxemburg / Alfred Döblin / John Dos Passos / Winston Churchill / Albert Cohen / Thomas Mann / Hermann Broch / Augusto Roa Bastos / Alejo Carpentier / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Yasmina Khadra / Rachid Mimouni / [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Sprache: Französisch
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Link(s) : https://hal.science/hal-04475552

Of all great historical figures, that of the leader is the most salient, as he (or, more rarely, she) seems capable of embodying the very best or (sometimes simultaneously) the very worst of his country's essence. As a result, biographies of leaders are as much political programs as historical research, as if the writers reverted to the genre of "Lives." This special issue of the periodical "Great Historical Figures in the Letters and the Arts" wishes to examine various twentieth- or twenty-first-century writers who used biographies of historical leaders as platforms to articulate their own vision of power and nation. ; Parmi les grandes figures historiques, la figure du dirigeant prend un relief particulier, tant il (le féminin est rare) semble apte à incarner ce qu'un pays a de meilleur et/ou de pire. Dès lors, les biographies de ces dirigeants prennent un caractère politique et programmatique autant qu'historique, renouant avec le genre des "Vies". Ce hors-série de la revue "Les grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts" se penche sur divers auteurs qui, aux vingtième et vingt-et-unième siècles, ont formulé leur conception du pouvoir et de la nation à travers leurs biographies de dirigeants historiques.