Robespierre sul Danubio. Note sul 'transfert' culturale franco-austriaco in "Robespierre. Ein modernes Epos" di Marie Eugenie delle Grazie

The present contribution investigates a case of French-Austrian cultural migration, devoting attention to the analysis of the transposition mechanisms adopted by Marie Eugenie delle Grazie during the preparation of her epos "Robespierre" (1894). After a brief presentation of the author and her work, the essay reconstructs the sources and discusses the choice of the literary genre as well as the semantic negotiations that gave birth to Robespierre. All this in order to retrace and properly assess the role played by literature in the making of a founding myth of modernity, which is the French Revolution, in the cosmopolitan context of late nineteenth-century Austria.