Caspar David Friedrich, whose memory is being celebrated this year, elevated nature, that great Whole of which humans are only a part, to the status of counterweight to triumphant rationalism. He reveals himself as a thinker of this founding antagonism of our modernity.

I'm a little embarrassed to think that Mozart is the classical composer par excellence, as opposed to the Baroque or Romantic composers. The word «classical» evokes regularity and order. But there's something original, profound and authentic in Mozart's music that doesn't quite fit in with classicism. This article, based on a lecture by pianist Jean-François Zygel, describes the subtle processes that explain Mozart's pre-Romanticism.

This is not an autobiography of any kind. The character's own story is certainly part of it, but it's not the whole story. As impressive as Woody Allen's cinema is, it doesn't make for such a pleasure to read a 534-page pamphlet that's not divided into parts or chapters. Not a work of memory, but a work of entertainment. The director once again takes on the role of writer to romanticize a life that is as hilarious as it is ridiculous, and therefore touching. To read Soit dit en passant is to have a good time laughing and bonding with the main character.

The co-founder of Romanticism