Heine a Parigi: il «palcoscenico» della querelle des femmes

Starting from Heinrich Heine’s relationship to Saint-Simonianism and his reworking of its emancipatory thought, the essay aims to analyse some key themes within Heine’s women’s issue, such as the anti-marriage polemic and the exploitation of the female artist in bourgeois society. These reflections, carried out in his French essays Ueber die französische Bühne and Lutezia and in the poem Pomare (Romanzero), highlight how Heine developed in Paris a greater awareness of the female condition, leading him from an utopian-romantic position to a progressive social criticism.