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CoHoque ~t Azay-le-Ferron

A la fin de septembre 1974, le Centre d'I~tudes Sup6rieures de la Renaissance de Tours organisa, en collaboration avec l 'Institut de Litt6rature G6n6rale et Compar6e de la Sorbonne Nouvelle et l 'Univer- sit6 de Tours, un colloque scientifique in'ternational de trois jours qui cut lieu ~t Azay-le-Ferron. Y participaient du c6t6 frangais: M. et Mine Leli6vre, Mme Morsy, Mme Nemer, MM. Voisine, Stegmann, Roger, Pageaux et Margolin; du c6t6 hongrois: M. S6t6r ainsi que MM. Kla- niczay, Vajda, Bene, Szegedy-Masz~k et Ferenczi.

M. P. Leli6vre fit une conf6rence sur (~ La critique et l 'histoire face ~t l 'art de la Renaissance sous la R6volution et l 'Empire >>. (N0us avons l 'honneur de pr6senter ci-dessus le texte de cette conf6rence. Red.) M. A. Stegmann parla de la mort du baroque et de sa survivance. M. I. S6t6r montra, surtout dans le miroir de l'0euvre de po6te hongrois Cso- konai, l'6cho qu'6veilla dans la litt6rature hongroise, la transformation de la litt6rature europ6enne ~t la fin du XVIII c si6cle. MM. J. Roger et Gy. M. Vajda soumirent ~t une analyse les probl6mes du classicisme et du n6o-classicisme en litt6rature. M. M. Szegedy-Masz~ik retra~a le d6veloppement de l 'ode depuis la Renaissance jusqu'au Romantisme. Chactme des conf6rences fut suivie d'une discussion aussi vive que fructueuse.

La troisi6me journ6e du colloque rut consacr6e ~t l'appr6ciation de deux ouvrages -- ~t parattre dans le cadre de la s6rie <~ Histoire Compar6e des Litt6ratures de Langues Europ6ennes >> -- (( Renaissance ~ et <~ Des Lumi6res au Romantisme ~. Leurs r6dacteurs et collaborateurs qui 6taient pr6sents proc~d6rent ~t l 'examen du travail effectu6 jusque-lh et d6termin6rent quelles seraient les t~ches venant imm6diatement apr6s.

L~SZL6 FERENCZI

News of the VEIIth ICLA Congress

The organising committee's first circular, sent to scholars of compara- tive literature throughout the world in nearly 3000 copies, was well received. More than 500 scholars from 37 countries indicated that they intended t o attend the Congress, and 400 offered to give lectures on the subjects suggested by the circular.

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The majority of them, 245, found the first topic, "Three Epoch- Making Changes in the History of Literatures in the European Lan- guages", the most attractive. One hundred and four scholars wished to speak on the third subject, "Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature". Only fifty-one would-be participants offered to lecture on the second topic, "Inter-Cultural Literary Relations in the Twentieth Century", probably because this was the first time that it appeared on the congressional programme.

Although the Congress is still more than a year off, the Screening Committees appointed by the ICLA leadership will soon start working on its thematical programme. In spite of the limited duration of the Congress, and of each of its working days, we hope to be able to find a solution which will both permit the greatest number of papers, and give the broadest scope for discussion.

Toward the end of the year 1975, the second circular will be prepared and sent out to the prospective participants, as well as to those interested in the Congress.

J6ZSEF KOVACS

Erratum

Concerning the caption to Alfred Kubin's "Gampspirch" (Chamois Hunting), fig. 13 in the study of Claude Gandelman (Vol. II. Nos. 3--4, p. 272). The expression " a filfform group" constitutes the aut- hor's own comment on the picture and is not a title or subtitle of the drawing. Therefore, the word "From:" ought to have been deleted. The Eds.