La Première Guerre mondiale à la breughélienne : sur Breughel à l’Yser de Franz Hellens

• Main Author: Julia Łukasiak
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Adam Mickiewicz University 2016-12-01
• Series: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Subjects: hellens; brueghel; fantastic reality; first world war
• Online Access: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/7616/7612

The article shows the importance of a tale “Breughel à l’Yser” in the context of the Franz Hellens’identity transformation which takes place during the First World War. On the one hand, in his tale Hel-lens refers by different means to the Breughel’s oeuvre continuing in that way the myth of Belgian writer perceived as a heir of the Flemish painters. On the other hand, via the landscape, the typical element of the Flemish master’s style, the writer introduces the elements of fantasy into a realistic de-scription of a battlefield, creating in that way his own aesthetics of “fantastique reel” (fantastic reality). Thus, this tale enables to examine how Hellens passes fluently from the “inherited identity” to the matu-re writer’s identity.