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Savarin/BalZac: du gout des excitants sur l'ecriture moderne.(Critical Essay)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20040922
Author:Dubois, Philippe C.

   Ces feuilles peuvent donc etre regardees comme un appendice de mes 
   "Confessions." 
 
   --Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

Le vif succes que remporte la Physiologie du gout de Brillat-Savarin lors de sa premiere edition en 1825 temoigne clairement de l'interet de l'epoque pour les affaires de gastronomie. La revolution du culinaire, commencee avec Grimod de la Reyniere et Antonin Careme, deviendra rapidement un evenement culturel, esthetique et litteraire aux consequences considerables, et influencera certains des changements qui vont marquer le XIXeme siecle. Le discours ...

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