Crébillon, La Motte, Challe, and Marivaux represent love in an operatic manner, where the eloquence of the inexpressible does not prejudge the chosen goals of a heart struck down in the quest for a truth which is no longer burdened by tragic passion, nor subjected to a libertine essentialism of the body. What emerges is a generous, modern experience of a creative and attractive sympathy which we may understand, with Sartre, Cassirer, or Rousseau, as a consciousness of desire, the evidence of a myth, or a sensible humanism.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
