L’INSPIRATION ROMANTIQUE DE "GASPARD DE LA NUIT"

n this work, we intend to show that Aloysius Bertrand in “Gaspard de la Nuit” drew the inspiration to his poems in prose from its nearest context: that one of French Revolution and the revolt of the spirit against everything which would impose an exaggerated materialism. Thus, in the middle of Enlightenment, there were those who went in search of “mysterious realities” and a “sense of mystery” that the pre-romantic literature in Britain and in Germany would express in its poetry. It is also in the 18th century that some works about the “Commedia dell’arte” and caricature concede to the grotesque a significant part in the formation of art, extending it to the supernatural and the absurd.