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With La semaine sainte [Holy Week] (1958), Louis Aragon travels as far back as 1815 to find a suitable context for the fictionalization of a reflection on the meaning of history and engagement. During the political disorientation at the outset of the Hundred Days War, Théodore Géricault plays the key role in a fable that highlights the ancient heroes of the Empire, henceforth confused with the main players of the King's Household on the run. To depict them, Aragon draws, notably, from the primary sources constituted by their Mémoires, material that would play a significant role in the genesis of French realist fiction. This documentation, which sheds light on the representation of a pivotal moment in French political and literary history, has implications for the poetics of the novel, heavily influenced by the narration of the memoirists to the point that the emerging authorial voice appears to echo them.
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