Pour une réfutation de la célébrité comme impératif social :  Flaubert épistolier

Thierry Poyet

doi:10.51777/relief27032

A critique of fame as a social imperative: Flaubert as correspondant

Author(s)

Thierry Poyet Université Clermont Auvergne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief27032

Keywords:

Flaubert, immortality, Beauty, contradictions, Romanticism, literary sociability

Abstract

If celebrity is an imperative of the artist's social life, Flaubert rejects it like everything that assigns him a place in the heart of the bourgeois world. However, the writer paradoxically did everything to access it. Its contradictions multiply to better question the definition of celebrity: where does it begin? According to what manifestations? With whom and in front of whom? A challenge for Flaubert: to ensure that celebrity merges with Beauty, the pantheonization of the work and immortality.

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Author Biography

Thierry Poyet, Université Clermont Auvergne

HDR lecturer in 19th century French literature, specialist in the work of Flaubert, Thierry Poyet teaches at the University of Clermont Auvergne. His most recent work focuses on the literary sociability of the writer, his cenacular relationships and his aesthetic debates with minors. Author of around sixty articles and around twenty books, he has republished novels by Du Camp, Feydeau and Céard. He directs the series "Minores 19/20" at Lettres Modernes Minard and published in 2024 Maxime Du Camp cent ans après (proceedings of the bicentenary conference) with Champion editions. Published by the same Champion editions in September 2025: Émile Clermont and the novissima verba of the 19th century. He is also a novelist.

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Published

2026-09-22

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2026): Celebrity

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Articles

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How to Cite

Poyet, T. (2026) “A critique of fame as a social imperative: Flaubert as correspondant”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 20(1), pp. 50–62. doi:10.51777/relief27032.