The invention of the steam in the early nineteenth century has profound implications for sea and land transport. The railway routes now crisscross Europe without borders. Zola is the first to give us with "La Bête humaine", a descriptive, epic and symbolic novel, not only a vision of particularly practical and well-defined set of the rail network, but also, and above all, the awareness of modern world under the influence of material inventions of the late nineteenth century. And it is a true epic of the conquest of the world that sings Emile Verhaeren in his poem La Conquête, where trains and ships symbolizing the driving force of human surge have a place of prime importance.
Quand le train inspirait les poètes et les romanciers du XIXe siècle
PROIA, Francesco
2015-01-01
Abstract
The invention of the steam in the early nineteenth century has profound implications for sea and land transport. The railway routes now crisscross Europe without borders. Zola is the first to give us with "La Bête humaine", a descriptive, epic and symbolic novel, not only a vision of particularly practical and well-defined set of the rail network, but also, and above all, the awareness of modern world under the influence of material inventions of the late nineteenth century. And it is a true epic of the conquest of the world that sings Emile Verhaeren in his poem La Conquête, where trains and ships symbolizing the driving force of human surge have a place of prime importance.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
