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Like a number of his contemporaries, Jules Larforgue (1860–87) was open to the influence of Arthur Schopenhauer and the latter’s disciple, Eduard von Hartmann. However, in Laforgue’s particular case, this double influence went far beyond the borrowing of a few concepts. The fact of reading these two authors intensively from the age of 20, and especially his predilection for Hartmann’s Die Philosophie des Unbewussten (Philosophy of the Unconscious), proved a truly formative influence. Indeed, Laforgue constructs his very Weltanschauung by combining the systems of both predecessors in his own particular way.
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See, for instance: P. Challemel-Lacour, ‘Un bouddhiste contemporain en Allemagne. Arthur Schopenhauer’, Revue des Deux Mondes, 86 (1870), 296–332
Théodule Ribot, La Philosophie de Schopenhauer (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1874);
Arthur Schopenhauer, Pensées et fragments, trans. by J. Bourdeau (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1881).
Eduard von Hartmann, Philosophie de l’inconscient, trans. by D. Nolen, 2 vols (Paris: Germer Baillière, 1877).
Jules Laforgue, ‘Letter to Gustave Kahn’ (12 or 29 December 1880), in Œuvres complètes, 3 vols (Lausanne: L’Age d’homme, 1986), I, p. 687. Unless otherwise indicated, translations are my own.
Jules Laforgue, Moralités légendaires, ed. by Daniel Grojnowski and Henri Scepi (Paris: GF-Flammarion, 2000), pp. 61–2; trans. by William J. Smith as Moral Tales (New York: New Directions, 1985), p. 10.
See Tiphaine Samoyault, L’Intertextualité: mémoire de la littérature (Paris: Nathan, 2001), p. 49.
See Michele Hannoosh, Parody and Decadence: Laforgue’s ‘Moralités légendaires’ (Colombus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), p. 164.
Richard Wagner, Quatre poèmes d’opéra traduits en prose française, précédés d’une lettre sur la musique (Paris: A. Bourdilliat, 1861), pp. 179–80.
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Guy, M. (2013). Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to Rewriting. In: Baldwin, T., Fowler, J., de Medeiros, A. (eds) Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature. Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137309143_5
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