Nuestros ancestros los galos. Eugène Sue y los misterios del pueblo francés
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2022
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Universidad del País Vasco
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Sánchez, Raquel (2022). «Nuestros ancestros los galos. Eugène Sue y los misterios del pueblo francés», Historia Contemporánea, 68, 49-78. (https://doi.org/10.1387/hc.21469)
Abstract
La novela popular del siglo xix jugó un papel muy importante en la creación de imaginarios políticos y sociales. Les mystères du peuple, de Eugène Sue, es uno de los mejores ejemplos de ello. Ideológicamente inserta en el romanticismo social, la novela propone, por un lado, una lectura del pasado francés que difiere de la ofrecida por otras interpretaciones coetáneas; por otro lado, lleva a cabo un análisis de la realidad en la que el conflicto entre clases es la clave explicativa de la historia. Sus ideas se proyectaron en el discurso republicano de las décadas posteriores, despojadas del romanticismo socialista defendido por su autor.
The popular novel played a very important role in the creation of political and social imaginaries in the nineteenth century, being Eugène Sue’s Les mystères du peuple one of the best examples of it. Ideologically close to social romanticism, the novel proposes, on one hand, an interpretation of the French past that differs from that offered by other coetaneous analysis. On the other hand, it carries out an analysis of social reality in which the conflict between classes is the explanatory key of history. Sue’s ideas were projected in the republican discourse of the following decades, stripped of the socialist romanticism defended by its author.
The popular novel played a very important role in the creation of political and social imaginaries in the nineteenth century, being Eugène Sue’s Les mystères du peuple one of the best examples of it. Ideologically close to social romanticism, the novel proposes, on one hand, an interpretation of the French past that differs from that offered by other coetaneous analysis. On the other hand, it carries out an analysis of social reality in which the conflict between classes is the explanatory key of history. Sue’s ideas were projected in the republican discourse of the following decades, stripped of the socialist romanticism defended by its author.