Thèse de doctorat en Littérature française
Sous la direction de Paulu Colombani.
Soutenue en 1997
à Nantes .
La these porte sur les trois principaux auteurs du roman cyclique italien : rovani, nievo et bacchelli et leurs romans respectifs : cento anni, le confessioni d'un ottuagenario et le mulino del po. La periode couverte par les trois romans s'etale de 1750 a 1918. Rovani fait vivre ses cento anni de 1750 a 1850. Son roman, qui a pour cadre la ville de milan, retrace cent ans d'histoire de la vie milanaise avec, en toile de fond, la construction de l'unite italienne. Les confessioni de nievo deplacent le personnage narrateur a travers toute l'italie dans une periode particulierement importante du risorgimento. L'auteur expose, a travers des destinees individuelles, les problemes de son epoque. Bacchelli, dans le mulino del po, a fait revivre 106 ans d'histoire dans la campagne ferraraise a une epoque ou les moulins tournaient grace a l'eau du fleuve. La these se propose d'etudier cette periode vue a travers les ecrits des trois auteurs qui, avec des approches differentes, permettent de donner un ample tableau social, politique, historique et religieux de l'italie.
Political life, economic and social conditions, importance of the church in the cento anni of giuseppe rovani, the confessioni d'un ottuagenario of ippolito nievo and the mulino del po of riccardo bacchelli
This thesis is about the three main authors of the italian cyclical roman : rovani, nievo and bacchelli and their works : cento anni, the confessioni d'un ottuagenario and the mulino del po. The period of the three romans runs from 1750 to 1918. In cento anni, rovani writes a story of one hundred years from 1750 to 1850. His work which takes place in milan tells the history of one hundred years of the milanese life with the construction of the italian unity. In the confessioni of nievo, the narrator who is also the hero of the roman travels all around italy during a very important period of the risorgimento. Through a few individual lifes, the author expose the problems of his century. Bacchelli, in his mulino del po, tells us about 106 years of the history of the ferrare countryside during a century where the watermill were moving from the force of the river. This research wants to study this big period through the works of those three authors who give us a good portrait of the social, political and religious history of italy at this time.