Le statut polygraphique et la structure heterogene de l’Histoire des deux Indes invitent a reexaminer les methodes et les strategies employees par les redacteurs, et amenent a lire le texte dans une double perspective : celle dictee par la tradition historiographique et celle suggeree, en parallele, par les intrusions du discours philosophique. C’est ce dernier aspect que tachent d’interroger les etudes ici reunies, en mettant l’accent sur le recyclage des sources et le croisement des voix textuelles (ce qui finit par ? mettre en scene ? une pluralite de visions sur les thematiques traitees), sur les phenomenes rhetoriques utilises par les auteurs (apostrophes, commentaires, dialogues fictifs et apartes), et/ou sur les figures qui marquent la narration d’une polyphonie subjective.
The polygraphic status and the heterogeneous structure of the Histoire des deux Indes invite us to re-examine the methods and strategies employed by the editors, and lead us to read the text from a double perspective: that dictated by the historiographical tradition and that suggested, in parallel, by the intrusions of philosophical discourse. It is this latter aspect that the articles gathered here attempt to examine, focusing on the recycling of sources and the crossing of textual voices (which ends up "staging" a plurality of visions on the themes treated), on the rhetorical phenomena used by the authors (apostrophes, commentaries, fictitious dialogues and asides), and/or on the figures that mark the narrative with a subjective polyphony.
The polygraphic status and the heterogeneous structure of the Histoire des deux Indes invite us to re-examine the methods and strategies employed by the editors, and lead us to read the text from a double perspective: that dictated by the historiographical tradition and that suggested, in parallel, by the intrusions of philosophical discourse. It is this latter aspect that the articles gathered here attempt to examine, focusing on the recycling of sources and the crossing of textual voices (which ends up "staging" a plurality of visions on the themes treated), on the rhetorical phenomena used by the authors (apostrophes, commentaries, fictitious dialogues and asides), and/or on the figures that mark the narrative with a subjective polyphony.