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- Title
A War of Sensibilities: Recovering Henri Barbot's Paris en feu (Ignis ardens).
- Authors
Picherit, Hervé G.
- Abstract
In a wild combination of science fiction and religious mysticism, Henri Barbot's novel Paris en feu (Ignis ardens) predicted in July 1914 a war of Zeppelins and radio waves with Germany. While Barbot's contemporaries imagined this scenario as a prophesy of the Great War that broke out only a few weeks after the publication of his novel, we should see in this text a subtler commentary on a change in French society accelerated by WWI. Paris en feu is unique in its preview of the war's displacement of French identity away from a historical and political context, to a primarily affective one.
- Subjects
MYSTICISM; RADIO waves; WORLD War I; FRENCH historiography; WAR
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 4, p143
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jmodelite.41.4.10