Quelques axes du champ littéraire francophone belge au sortir du Premier Conflit mondial

After the armistice, Belgium had to reconstruct itself politically and culturally. In literature, this led to latinization that very quickly became a sort of assimilation to France. At the same time, this caused an increase of national conscience that developed among young people as a movement alongside the literary, which has returned under French suzerainty. Some writers (Gauchez, Perier, etc.), however, began to celebrate Belgian francophone authors in order to claim the existence of a different corpus of French literature per se. In 1919, young author Henry Soumagne returned from the German camps and gave in “Les épaves” a fable that attests to the tension between the weight of the 19th-century Belgian myth and 1920s modernism.