Théophile Gautier, o folhetinista ficcionista-poeta

Abstract

Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a poet, novelist, and short story writer, recognized in the pleiad of the 19th century, who also dedicated his life to journalism. His entire production for the periodic press constitutes relevant literary documents. This study is dedicated to an analysis of the writing of theatrical feuilletons written by Gautier for the Parisian newspaper La Presse in the 1840s. Based on the main studies about the relations between literature and press, in addition to critical studies about the writer-journalist, with the analyses and explanation of the first years of the author as a theatrical feuilletonist, we seek to demonstrate that his critiques to spectacles reveal artistic concepts, and that the aesthetic and composition of his fictionist and poetic pen from the Romantic era, articulated to a literary-journalistic writing, are inventive and transgressive against the typical speech of support. In the section of the feuilleton reserved for theatrical reviews, thanks to the liberty of the newspapers’ footnotes, a space dedicated to literary transposition of reality, by language and by fiction, Théophile Gautier questions the panorama of the spectacles as well as day-to-day reality, narrating and appreciating the representations and the main dramatic and lyric plays of his time.