En longeant la Tramontane : George Sand, la montagne, la mer et le moi

Abstract

[eng] How to say the beauty of the landscape when traveling? The aesthetic movements of the 18th century responded with the picturesque and the sublime. But what about the romantics and in particular George Sand? The landscape of the Majorcan mountains forms in George Sand's writings a literary palimpsest, where the first intention of describing with an objective and picturesque point of view leads to the sublime and 'delightful horror' (Edmund Burke) which provokes a numinous experience (Rudolf Otto) and reveals the most intimate self. The traveler loses her mask of truth-teller to give free rein to the writer and her reverie.