L'X de la parole: Essai sur le discours du fou dans le recit romantique europeen

Certain European Romantic stories, notably those of Bonaventura, Hoffmann, Nodier, Balzac, Gogol, Odoyevsky and Nerval, give the floor to madmen who call into question the philosophical precedence of reason and the classical aesthetic. They question the relationship between literature, knowledge and language.