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Laureano, Graziela Daniel. "Subjetividade diluída : a força do tempo em Marguerite Duras." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Amiens, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AMIE0065.
Full textThe research on the theme of temporality in Marguerite Duras, will be developed regarding three works of the french author : Agatha (1981), Savannah Bay (1982), La Maladie de la Mort (1982). The indissociable relation between time and subjectivity allow us to understand the place of memory in the Duras's work and its relation with dissolution and becoming. These aspects will be analyzed searching in the french author relations which make possible to penetrate in hers writings aiming the issue of the becoming. Those lines of such kind of uncertainness demanding parentheses, pause, time, silence has as focus to show the absence and weakening the power of playing, and so the force of the time will emerge from the works of M. Duras's exploring aspects as dilution and propagation of a work in constant becoming
Gerardot, Anne-Lucile. "L'alcool dans l'œuvre de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Reims, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REIML010.
Full textAlcohol is a major theme in the works of Marguerite Duras. The aim of this research is to study Durassian alcohol from the point of view of the story, the imagination and the reading. The first part outlines the place and the role of alcohol in the diegesis. We examine Durassian alcohol in view of its relationship with space, time, and characters. The second part tackles the ambivalent nature of Durassian alcohol from the angle of fantasy. In particular, we seek to highlight the complex relationship that alcohol has with destruction and creation (including literary creation) in the author’s imagination. The third part focuses on the “reading of alcohol”. It mostly aims to analyse the ways in which this theme is received by the reader. Finally, this leads us to make the assumption that the reading of the Durassian text is indeed a “drunk reading”, that is to say, an experience which generates, in the real reader, similar effects to those alcohol causes in the fictional characters
Crétien, Aude. "Temps et métamorphoses dans l’œuvre dramatique d'Arthur Schnitzler, Paul Claudel et Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030077/document.
Full textTime is both an objective idea, external to man and an emanation of its subjective perception. In his relation to time, man is consequently endlessly involved in a dialectic between the real time, that he is submitted to, and the imaginary time, that he creates. Drama - a work of imagination dedicated to be inscribed in the actual time of representation - is the privileged ground for the observation of this dialectic. The latter will be even more intense in the case of a dramatic work setting in the foreground the psyche of the characters and more particularly their subjective perception of time. Now, this question seems to lie at the heart of the dramatic works of Arthur Schnitzler, Paul Claudel and Marguerite Duras. The characters of their books show in a significant way a desire to escape the irreversible manner time is passing, and dramatic art lets us feel a will to play with it and to free itself from its linearity. The idea that I will try to demonstrated in this thesis is that the treatment of time, in the plays of these three writers, is underlain by the desire to escape the passage of time. Seven parts will compose this study. I will first focus on the linear representation of time, before studying how it takes a new shape once filtred by subjective experience : elastic time, repeated time, eternal time, and time started a new. I will eventually wonder if, for these authors, the ultimate emancipation towards the irreversible passage of time could lie in the dramatic representation itself
Doneux-Daussaint, Isabelle. "Le dialogue romanesque chez Marguerite Duras : un essai de pragmatique narrative." Lyon 2, 2001. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/sdx/theses/lyon2/2001/doneux_i.
Full textMiyazaki, Kaiko. "Marguerite Duras face à la mémoire du génocide juif." Paris 7, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA070087.
Full textAccording to Dionys Mascolo, he and Duras were "judaized and communized forever" when Antelme went back for the Nazi camps. However, it is only far later, at the end of the 60's that Jewish characters, associated to the memory of the genocide, began to populate Duras' writings. At the same time, started a process of décommunisation in the same texts, a if the communist identity has been changed for the Jewish identity. At the end, the judaization concerned not only the writings, but also the author herself. However, it is more an appropriation of other's memory than a real "Judaization" of Duras, at the very moment when the memory of the genocide became fully recognized amongst the French society. This makes us think that one must place the "auto-judaization" of Duras in and identity-building process, aimed to fulfill her existential need. In this way, more than the question of culpability, when Duras call for "Auschwitz" again and again, we understand it as an attempt to build an Family novel which has the memory of the genocide as a basis
Jin, Jisook. "La musique et la danse dans le "cycle indien" de Marguerite Duras." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10020.
Full textCabrolier, Pascale. "Le regard dépaysé : la notion de paysage dans les romans de Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute et Claude Simon." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0021.
Full textLandscapes are part of a common discourse. At the crossroad of technology, environmental debates and artistic photography, they figure in countless novels, trigering stereotypes : natural, pleasant spaces conveying a stable order that the eye absorbs, appraises and controls. Yet this univocal discourse forgets that the very idea of landscape is a recent cultural construct in Europe, a pictorial invention of the late 15th century turning the land into a landscape. Going against the grain, the "New Novel" questions -in an exemplary fashion- the premises underpinning it. Disrupting traditional systems of representation, clichés and flourishes, it deconstructs the concept of landscape that anchors the perception of reality an d presupposes a dubious relationship between the world and an all-knowing, all-powerful subject. Conversely, it constructs another vision, destabilized, but keen, an perhaps new models by exploring a reality altogether familiar and uncanny
Cousseau, Anne. "L'écriture de l'enfance dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras." Rennes 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997REN20003.
Full textThe representation of childhood is the nexus of formal and aesthetical components which are essential in marguerite Duras's writing. In order to put intolight significant writing stategies in Duras aesthetic, this study uses several interpretations of childhood together with various theoretical approaches. It shows how an imaginary ans a fantasy both rich and productive are built around the topic of childhood, and emphasizes what its representation takes from the literary tradition thanks to the faithful, transformed or subverted rewriting of mythical patterns. The first part of the study deals with the narrative treatment of the child as a character. The second one shows how Duras develops her own style of autobiographical writing from the Indochine childhood. The last part concerns the poetry of childhood and analyses various networks of images linked with the Indochine childhood, and studies the analogy between the figure of the child and the figure of the writer, thus enlighting the meaning of Duras's poetical quest
Blasquez, Bérengère. "Poétiques romanesques de la fascination (Louis Aragon, Julio Cortázar, Marguerite Duras, Julien Gracq, Ernesto Sábato)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030071.
Full textFascination is an experience of limits which requires language to find other means of expression at the moment when the subject sees himself / herself breathless on the brink of aphasia. Philosophy, in its question of the sublime has paved the way by searching for definitions in rhetorical, ontological and ethical terms as to what happens during loss of consciousness when reason is suspended. Western mystical poetry has also probed those moments of rapture when the subject in the grip of ecstasy receives, in a fullness paradoxically painful, the Divine presence. The present work poses against these questions transposing them in to a corpus of novels coloured by a Surrealist lyrical experience, when the absolute is immanent. The question of the Other pervades these novels whose forms and meanings are traversed by a meeting which is the outstanding event and which haunts irremediably the text. A dramaturgy is revealed: the novel becomes the fa! vourable space for the appearance of the capital event of the experience, allowing speech to detach itself ostensibly in the narrative flow to take other turnings and to choose relays. An invisible scene appears however beneath the surface and an underlying network of power relations which gives access to a hyperbolical and ambiguous emotion. Time freezes to imprison the labile event, and the frontiers between the senses become blurred to translate the unspeakable. Music relaunches the text a pray to silence barely pierced, sometimes, by cries. The alteration of the fascinated subject spreads throughout the text which opens out a pathway towards poetry
Chen, Xiaolin. "Le vieillissement dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30034.
Full textAging, an inevitable process that no creature on the earth could escape, is synonymous with living and an ongoing process throughout our existence. Despite the abundant studies on Marguerite Duras, the researches on the theme of aging seem rare. Being one theme related to the passage of time, aging is however omnipresent in the artistic universe of Duras as well as in the life of the writer, who towards the last years of her life transformed herself into a key figure in her works. In this thesis I suggest that there are three main aspects in dissecting the presence of aging in the world of Duras: the aging of the characters in her work; the aging of the author; and the aging of her writing. Based mainly on psychic, psychoanalytic and sociological approaches, my analysis of the aging of the characters focuses on the various symptoms of senility that affect the human beings as well as the writing, which is also inscribed in a process towards evanescence and disappearance. This evolution of writing, which increasingly thins out, becomes consistent with the aging of the characters and that of their author, as the author’s public image constantly changes to respond to the effects incurred by time in the author’s life and her writing. All these three aspects show that aging in the world of Marguerite Duras is an evolution towards disappearance. It is through this movement, even this “fall” gravitating towards the decline, that her writing on aging realise her dynamism. Contrary to the stereotypes, Duras does not praise aging as an advantage to reach the wisdom or the salvation, nor considers it as a punishment: the attitude of Duras concerning aging is characterized by resignation and passivity, but in a positive sense, marked by the deep reconciliation and the acceptance of the vanity of existence, and above all the wear and tear of time. Duras converts the decadence presented in the process of aging into a true motive of her writing and her own life
Tremblay, Katheryn. "Parages poétiques : Remembrance et poésie dans Kamouraska d'Anne Hébert et L'Amant de Marguerite Duras." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26890.
Full textVogt, Catherine. "Performativité dans l'oeuvre de Duras, entre littérature et cinéma : l'image sonore." Paris 7, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA070093.
Full textFrom the attempt of classification of texts by Duras literary genres, we found the eclecticism of the work. The confusion of classes taken from traditional recurring themes articulated tentacles as around phrases narratives. The process of writing and rewrite in progress is characterized by the elaboration of texts always come. The work is serial the characters intersect/are lost and endup - or are not - a text to another. Temporality dissolves into unreality to make this one the literature of truth - black as the black image of l'homme atlantique. Text-film, new data in textual literature of the twentieth century, contains the text, film, their limits and comment picaro is the literature of the drawer in which the film is back type of text is this film? In the cinema of Duras, character on the screen is a while watching the view in le camion for example, all images disappear one after the other to the rhythm of music which modulates the spacebar. The language in the language is Duras film by which the spectator creates its own representatives, ah! Ernesto (text illustrations for children) in la pluie d'ete (roman) via les enfants (film), cycles of writing in the work of denial to the bar placenta the author and the reader board gorge fiction, at the edge of god that must reinventing the man in the aftermath of fascism
Huang, Hong. "Duras et l'Asie, l'Asie et Duras : étude des représentations de l'Asie dans l'oeuvre et de la réception de l'oeuvre en Chine." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030103.
Full textMarguerite Duras (1914-1996) is a contemporary writer of classical value in the 20th century French literary field. Based on the full and accurate data in France and China, synthesizing several literary research methods such as text analysis, psychoanalysis, parallel and effect analysis, this paper explores the relationship between Duras' writing and Asia and then makes a further analysis of the acceptance and influence of Duras' works in China. Starting from her works and its cultural root, it aims to reveal the tremendous effects of Asia on the writer. Simultaneously, the representations of Asia in Duras' works can be regarded as both the starting point for us to translate, accept her works and the crossing point between varied literary trends and many writers in current China. The acceptance of Duras' works' in China facilitates not only the new understanding of her writing, but also provides new modes of thinking to interpret some literary phenomena and fashion in China
Athanassiou, Georgia. "Le couple dans l'oeuvre de M. Duras : étude sémiostylistique et logométrique." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040283.
Full textThis study aims at lifting the veil on the beauty of Duras's writing and approach of the couple theme. The couple signifier has many signified, on some of which a semic selection has been made. Of course, Duras's work is full of quite significant dualities, such as the mother-daughter, mother-son, brother-sister relationships. This study concerns the man-woman relationship, i. E. The relationship of a couple in love. The semiotic study of this complex duality leads us to the emergence of stylistic devices, polysemies, hidden contradictions, and signs to be interpreted allowing the text to penetrate as the body's ideal imitation. It is essential to point out that the body-corpus favouring such a study includes six of Duras's works, L'Amant, L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, La Pute de la Côte Normande, Yeux bleus cheveux noirs, L'Homme assis dans le couloir, C'est tout. These works are subject to a logometric study, a quantitative and semic analysis of the sentences, which completes the couple approach. This analysis completes the image of the texts and addresses the couple theme in connection with Duras's themes streaking the corpus works. Hence, by means of a both qualitative and quantitative way, the love theme is compared to the themes of silence and destruction in order to find an ambiguous Ariadne's thread imposing a new interpretation of the works under the light of avatars and lighted shadows. The semiostylistic analysis, which is also carried out through the logometric approach of the couple in Duras's work, reveals the depth of Duras's poetic establishing a complicity with the reader which is not to be renewed. Being together it is love, death, words, sleeping (C'est tout, p. 12). To paraphrase Duras: Being together, it is love, death, logos, the end
Benjelloun, Lamia. "La mort et son expression dans les romans de Marguerite Duras : La Vie matérielle ; Emily L. ; La Pluie d'été ; L'Amant de la Chine du Nord ; Yann Andréa Steiner ; Le Monde extérieur ; Ecrire ; C'est tout." Nancy 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NAN21003.
Full textOur study shows how the death stands out as major subject, and original creative principle of Marguerite Duras's romantic universe. The death indeed joins in the continuity of the life, all the progress of the narrative is guided, even precipitated towards the topic of the end. The durassienne work testifies of the loss of the sense. The scandal that represent all the scenes of the death (wars, genocides, suicides, old ages,. . . ) is at the origin of the literary creation of Marguerite Duras, it generally fulfils a curative and therapeutic function. Thus, various employment that Marguerite makes of term "death" or of its synonyms, allow to see that she never speaks about the death with indifference or serenity. The death is for her a word loaded with emotion
Corradi, Elena. "Dire l'émotion dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras : le corps et la voix." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030155.
Full textThe purpose of our work is to report on one of the specificities of Marguerite Duras’s writing style, which consists in including emotion in her texts as a key device. We will show to what extent the emotional phenomenon can be enunciated on several levels in the writer’s literary work. Emotion is first of all suggested as the starting point of the construction of the characters whose behavior and most intimate self are thus defined. Then, emotion creeps into the dialogs which play an important part in Duras’s narrations, and becomes their mainspring. Emotion also stands out as the basic principle of the highly personal communication that Duras has always known how to maintain with her readers. This is how a permanent trait of Duras’s writing appears, conveyed by the bodies and voices of the writer and her characters. Given her eclecticism, which gave rise to a highly heterogeneous production, we decided to focus on the novels which offer a global vision of the emotional phenomenon on its three levels of expression: its representation, the way the narration operates as a scriptural device and the relationship with the reader. We also decided to take into consideration the works which punctuated the writer’s long career without identifying periods since the phenomenon of “emotion” was a de facto part of Marguerite Duras’s writings ever since her early days
Seki, Mirei. "La différenciation de l'écriture chez Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030205/document.
Full textIn all of Marguerite Duras’ works, we encounter an impossibility of comprehension. Duras did not write for the sake of developing her art ; her works display a narrative,figurative and imaginative differentiation. In the first section of this essay, we analyse chronological differentiation in hernovels. The unpredictable chronology, due to the mechanism of differentiation, resultsin a narrative without a clear time line. In the second section, the problem of textual ambiguity, that is, the intersection ofopposites, such as memory and oblivion, is discussed. We analyse the role which thisambiguity plays as a source of differentiation in Duras’ work. In the third section, we examine the role of differentiation in the relationships between characters. The inadequacy of words leads to misunderstanding, and alienation. Because of miscommunication, characters are unable to determine the essential personality or identity of others. Our misunderstanding of others affects not only our relationships with them, but also our understanding of ourselves on a personal level. Differentiation plays an important role in the subjective experience of thereader. Reading Duras’ work is not a process of understanding a superficial, logical progression, but a deep exploration of oneself
Yang, Yingying. "Marguerite Duras et Eileen Chang. L'enfance, le roman familial, l'écriture féminine." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030058/document.
Full textMarguerite Duras (1914-1996) and Eileen Chang (1920-1995), two women writers of the 20th century show specific sources for their inspiration : Duras – was from Indochina, and Chang – was from Shanghai; childhood and family experiences offer the background of most of their works. The worlds they describe are consequently defined by pain and suffering – either individual or collective. The family theme prevails in the works of both writers. It allows to offer a psychoanalytic reading of many of their novels of each writer, and to comment them by reference to the family romance which characterizes Duras and Chang. But childhood, family secrets, importance of the mother image, etc., are not the only background of Duras and Chang’s works. Both writers were fully aware of the political and social conditions which prevailed, and of the women’s situation. Consequently, the psychoanalytic reading of both writers should not neglect these conditions and the lucidity of both writers. This reading should account for the connection between the family history of both writers and their ability to address broader issues
Chouen-Ollier, Chloé. "L'écriture de la prostitution dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras. Écrire l'écart." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030061.
Full textThis dissertation analyses the different meanings of prostitution in the writings of Marguerite Duras. Through the intersecting analytical lenses of literary history, philosophy and psychoanalysis, our research shows that prostitution, far from being a simple subject, is inherent to the creative art and act of the author. Writing, for Duras, is the product of a creative tension shaped by distance : the very margin (away from the doxa, the language itself) from which the author crafted her work is the creative force that informs her desire to diverge from the norm and effectively strive to overturn rather than follow it.We will first consider the thematic of prostitution – prevalent from her earliest texts – throughout Duras’s work and how it weaves a veritable fantasy matrix proposing a body of work that reverses the common axiology by sacralizing profanity and placing the margin at the center. Prostitution becomes a melting pot of the writing process and reveals the agenda of the potentialities within creation (it shapes writing itself). Nevertheless, beyond the idealization of giving oneself to another, prostitution runs deeper than the skin : it has ametaphysical sense. Indeed, we demonstrate how offering one’s body is linked to an infinite quest or thirst that only the Absolute of life can quench. Offering one’s body is a tense act situated between desire and mourning and that can be interpreted as the quest for Aletheia(truth through unveiling), rather than a simple transaction free of any eroticism. In any case,to prostitute oneself is above all, a staged performance deeply rooted in theatricality, and this point is analyzed in the last part of our work. After the 1980s the rapport between the prostitute and the truth changes and distance, far more than the rapprochement between bodies and beings, is then paid in cash
Cassirame, Brigitte. "La représentation de l'espace par Marguerite Duras dans le cycle romanesque asiatique : les lieux du ravissement, entre possession et dépossession." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070077.
Full textThe subject of this thesis refers to durassian fiction, her novels of the asiatic cycle : "Un Barrage contre le Pacifique", "Le Ravissement de Lol. V Stein", "Le Vice-Consul", "L'Amant / L'Amant de la Chine du nord" and the cinematographic produce "India Song". These texts have their setting in India-China or Indian where the teller has lived during her girlhood. But this study is not a bibliographical investigation. No matter if Marguerite Duras's writings tell truth or litterary lie. We are interested about the real space's transposition in the novels ; how has M. Duras distributed every places in the fiction's spaces ? How and why has she figured child's world samehow or other ? So this thesis try to prove that the space's figuration or metaphorization in the asiatic cycle novels frequently uses the ravishing's topic. We can also call it, rape, rapture, delight, even ecstasy. All the durassian spaces are showed through these different matters being ravished or teared away. It appears that M. Duras has created a veritable rhetoric of the ravishing with her descriptions, using many figures of speech, like metaphor or a style of allegory. Seas, rivers, mountains and forests symbolise destruction, loss, ruin and failure. In this asiatic space, there's a figure, a character which makes oneself prominent : the mother. M. Duras has been affected by this woman, feme covert. How could we discover the durassian production by forgetting the great character of the mother ? It's impossible. Marguerite Duras's texts, concerning this epoch, tell the sad and pathetic story of the "mother of china" , like the teller used to say. The space's representation keep inside the disastrous, the calamitous mother's action: daming a sea, fighting against the Pacific in order to help and give rice to the chinese population and all the children which were starving in the plain. The motherly image means both cruelty and softness , love and hate. That is why the durassian writing is so complicated and doubtful. Finally this subject will induce us to understand her personal mythe, by exploring her "camera obscura" : something that becomes violent and silent, like a travel in a wild country
Seddaoui, Fatima. "Peinture et écriture dans l'œuvre de Marguerite Duras : un peintre du langage ?" Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011TOU20042.
Full textWe would like to develop the idea according to which Marguerite Duras is a painter of the language. By focusing us on the relationship between the writing and painting, we will endeavour to locate and analyze the evoked or invented tables and the images worked in works. In order to clarify the complex intertextuality which enters within the various networks of representation and on the basis of any representation. Without claiming with exhaustiveness, one can try to give an outline of this presence of painting to the background of the reflexion durassienne. How painting made it text ? And which is the stake ? It will also be a question of studying the role and the significance of painting in the novel in order to compare the statute of painting in work with that of painting. Part of this study will treat painting like sociological, intellectual and historical phenomenon (the esthetics question). Moreover, research will be centered on the bonds between the cinema and painting the study will be developed on the following points : emissions, and criticisms on the author in order to trace an overall framework of the elements in connection with the subject. We will approach in particular the presentation of the theoretical and methodological debate on the relationship between the cinema and painting. Work will weave close links between visual art and the language. A part will analyze the relationship between the cinema and painting on a significant film corpus, starting from its beginning to its last film going back to 1979. Our study will be a research and an analysis of the occurrences of painting and their significances in the filmic speech durassien. The speech on painting being confronted with several problems
Ferreira, Julia. "La notion d'intime et de secret dans l'œuvre de Marguerite Duras : Moderato Cantabile, Dix heures et demie du soir en été, Hiroshima mon amour et le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein." Nice, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006NICE2012.
Full textWriter about passion, “crasy love”, and of death, Duras can also be qualified as the writer of the « intimate » as shown in the novels of the sixties, Moderato Cantabile, Dix heures et demie du soir en été, Hiroshima mon amour et Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, the silence around which the texts were built, the mystery surrounding the female characters and their feelings, are the sing of a past experience « intimate », kept secret, interiorized, never really expressed. In these works Duras tries untiringly to penetrate the « intimate » of her heroines by striving to bring to light and undestand their past experience, this painful and personal story which remains hidden. Duras in this manner would write and re-write the traumatic event lived by her heroines, this event displayed through music and scenes of the initial scene. Yearning and absence, omnipresent grounds equally associated to female characters, confirmed on their side making the echo of an impossible mourning. Whereas the preocess of re-wrinting gives evidence of the report of the search towards a solution, Duras seems far from having resolved the immemorial past of the heroines. If al these themes characteristics of the durassian work – absence, yearning, love and death – do not stop being scrutinized it is because at the end they are found directly or indirectly connected to the childhood of the author, to the mother and to the death of the younger brother passionately loved
Ignace, Geneviève. "L’œuvre de la destruction dans les romans de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040081.
Full textThe text cannot be completed must be destroyed by the cinema: this is notably one of the great creators of the work durassian principles. Also, it is our intention to study the work of destruction in the novels of Marguerite Duras through a corpus chosen in relation to explicit criteria, ranging from 1943 to 1991: Moderato Cantabile, Destroy, she said, The Square , The Vice-consul ... First, we look for signs of a real extermination will in fiction by determining the stylistic features of the text, the main features of semblance character condemned to pain or disaster. But we will show that the color of durassian text is not as bleak as it seems to be: the character - seen through a prism kojévien and Kierkegaardien - moving up to a certain transcendence. Then we will examine whether the durassian writing is metaphorical destruction as rugged, crossed by Pascal's trace, very marked by repetition, revealing a wide footprint of loss and doubt. This will question us about the writing that durassian attenterait any literariness. Finally, we will study how the transition took place in the cinema of text, how this text is metaphorical film technique in general, the film durassian meaning in particular; it is representative of durassian film meant and what fiction is allegorical writing by Marguerite Duras. We will finish by questioning the true nature of this writing: a simple destruction? A work raising to the level of art a text that the author wanted to "kill" ?
Camerini, Laurent. "(Ré)écriture(s) et (re)lecture(s) de la judéité dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030153.
Full textJewishness and Jewish characters have permeated the entirety of Duras's work as well as her various thoughts. In 1980, she wondered in Les Yeux verts: “What does Jewishness represent in the personal questioning of non-Jewish ones? What does that unrivalled and absolute recourse stand up against?” One of the main goals of this research is to try and answer those questions. The point is to understand why, what she called “the Jewish entity”, is so pervasive and how the recurring image of the Jew(s) has evolved through time from that very first encounter with the other(s).We will first try to go through the different steps of that approach by answering two essential questions. On the one hand, what “Jewish”, that “genuine number” or that possible “hole word” is and on the other hand, what it means to be Jewish and how the idea that the Jew could symbolize “an upcoming condition of man informed” giving birth, in the process, to a kind of modus vivendi or to some ethics, could be formed. We will continue with reflecting on how that very personal delineation of the topic has gradually pervaded the way Duras wrote and how, by singling out a genetic approach, that writing took shape in the characterization of her odd protagonists. We will end our study by wondering whether both her relation to books and the unlimited interpretations the reader is faced with are typical of some sort of Hebraic, Talmudic attitude and, beyond that, how that Jewishness eventually gave rise to a melody, a chain of words or even some poetics that would resemble a Jewish conception of the writer and of the written work
Aghazamani, Elahe. "La dynamique masculin/féminin dans la dernière période de la création littéraire de Marguerite Duras (1980-1996) à travers ses romans et récits." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA101/document.
Full textThe idea for this thesis arose from a certain documentary void regarding a whole segment of Duras' work : her final years...despite being a period in which she often came in for harsh criticism, seem to us her most fruitful and accomplished, during which she avoided dwelling on the psychology of her protagonists, and opted for a narrative structure based more upon certain archetypes (such as that of the ideal man, epitomised by Andréa, the younger brother, or Ernesto) hence going against modern trends. This return to an archaic style of literature is symptomatic of Duras' quest for an even more radical "feminology" than that of Antoinette Fouque. But is similar in its connection with Michelet's witch.Only the witch/sorcerer is capable of detecting the unspeakable and retranscribing it, not by the magic of the Word (directly borrowed from the male-God logos) but by the force of the unsaid. Thus Duras assumes this abdication in the face of rhetoric. So the long-awaited male, Yann Andrea, finally joins the novelist. This flesh and blood archetype inspires in her a new sense of literary ceativity like certains ladies in the Middle Ages inspired by their champions.Our novel approach to Duras tries to show how she treated in an archaic/anachronistic way what others considered as the couple's contemporary problems. What emerges from this carefully crafted discrepancy is a form of dialectic we'll call "The dynamic of masculine/feminine in the last period of literary creativity of M.D. through her novels and narratives
Correale, Anna. "L'écriture du silence." Nice, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NICE2006.
Full textFrantz, de Spot Anaïs. "La pudeur au secret de la littérature : pour une autre lecture du "péché originel". Marguerite Duras, Violette Leduc." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030081.
Full textThis thesis is an attempt to rethink the relationship between pudeur (a sense of shame) and literature : it is not about shame in literature or about the literature of modesty but about the literary act as an act of pudeur. The first part of the thesis is a discovery of modesty (in French, in the occident) ; in other words it is a dropping of the veil of the discourses which, since the canonical interpretations of « original sin » in the Bible, have forged the myth of a « female modesty ». This will highlight the textual nudity of the auctorial subject (« auctorial » : from the latin augere, meaning « to increase » which is at the root of the word for « author »). Under a covert sexual interdiction and a veil wrapped round the « feminine », female modesty dissimulates a generic complexity : the problematic articulation between species (human-animal), genders (male-female), and genres (religious or philosophical-literary) of which literature might hold the secret. In its second part the thesis examines the effects of pudeur auctoriale as revealed in a series of texts by Marguerite Duras and Violette Leduc. Among the intimate genres that these authors revisit in fiction there are : the autobiography (La Bâtarde and, to a certain extent L’Amant de la Chine du Nord), the diary and correspondence (Aurélia Steiner and L’Affamée). This study underlines the deconstruction from the inside towards which pudeur tends : a poetic responsibility and a literary honesty
Moradi, Maram Amineh. "Le personnage romanesque - de la tradition à la transgression. Proust et Duras." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA120.
Full textThe thesis entitled Fictional character: from tradition to transgression is based mainly on the convergences of In Search of Lost Time of Marcel Proust and the Cycle of Indochina of Marguerite Duras. We show how Marcel Proust and Marguerite Duras have surpassed the limits of stereotypes of literature while keeping links with the traditional description.The first part is devoted to the traditional representation of the portrait and character of the characters in the two writers. For this, we are interested in the intertextual links that make up the character and the portrait of the Proustian and Durassian characters.The second part questions the deconstruction of the stereotypes of the identity of the characters in the two writers. Proust and Duras choose to distance themselves from classical writers insofar as they allow us to grasp the characters in all their complexity and from completely different perspectives. We show how the themes already used by the great classical writers appear in the Proustian work and the Durassian work, rich in hidden codes.The third part engages a development of the theme of love as a subject of transgression. We show how Proust and Duras go beyond the limits of tradition by representing enjoyment, erotic encounters and figures of desire, from the most discreet to the most scandalous
Pettinotto, Jean-Philippe. "Raconter une crise : La mémoire et la vie familiale dans les œuvres de Natalia Ginzburg et de Marguerite Duras." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20024/document.
Full textThe theme of family relationships is recurrent in the works of Natalia Ginzburg and Marguerite Duras because it offers them a framework to question at least two elements of narrative construction: the structure of the work and the narrative syntax.However, the peculiarity of their literary works lies less in the description of family lives than in "the talking image" that they provide of these lives. Indeed, the two novelists look at the family as a means to question language. Through the misunderstandings and pains of family life, they emphasize in fact a phenomenon that goes beyond the narrow limits of the family: the falsity of everyday language.Firstly, in this study, we observe how Natalia Ginzburg and Marguerite Duras refuse the traditional narrative order when they need to represent the chaos of family life. Secondly, we show how they perform a reconstruction of the world proceeding through the creation of cause-effect links between the events, and through the breakdown of language. Thirdly, we see how the search for family unity led both authors to subvert the norms of literary language to rediscover, go beyond and even destroy the lost past.This research work was carried out in the framework of a joint PhD program of the University Lumière Lyon 2 and the Università degli studi di Torino ; in addition to the academic interest that it might generate, this thesis aims at making Natalia Ginzburg's works a little better known in France and those of Marguerite Duras a little better known in Italy
Weeber, Jeanne. "La Stratégie de la fuite. Folie et antipsychiatrie dans le roman de 1960 à 1980." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040069.
Full textIn the early sixties, the theme of madness suddenly became a prominent subject in both social sciences and litterature. Whether as discursive pratice or philosophical and social issue, there was considerable divergence in and around the anti-psychiatric mouvement. A comparative study of a body of litterature composed of nine novels by French, American, English, Dominican, New-zealander, Moroccan and Portughese writers allows a broad and contextualized comprehension of the various treatements of anti-psychiatry in contemporary litterature. Thus, Faces in the Water by Janet Frame and The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson (1961), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962), The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963), Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras and Le Locataire chimérique by Roland Topor (1964), Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), Moha le fou, Moha le sage by Tahar Ben Jelloun (1978) and Conhecimento do Inferno by Antonio Lobo Antunes (1980) are analized from the point of view of psychiatry researches (Szasz, Cooper, Laing...) sociological (Goffmann, Anderson...) and philosophical reflection (Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard...) in order to trace the outline of what that historical moment called 'madness'. Punctual obsessions and traditional definitions converge in these works to create a poetic of runaway, moreover, an aesthetics of escape
Notaire-Perrissin-Fabert, Odile. "La rencontre et l'exil dans l'espace théâtral durassien." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030135.
Full textLeBlanc, Éric. "Le bleu des garçons : suivi de : «Pourquoi se refuser, ce soir, à cette supposition?» : imaginaire et contamination narrative dans Dix heures et demie du soir en été de Marguerite Duras." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33224.
Full textThis Master’s Dissertation in research-creation splits in two parts: a collection of short fictions and a theoretical essay. Le bleu des garçons regroups twelve fictional stories questioning masculine desire. The texts’ versified form explores the limit between prose and poetry, while the use of various narrative strategies, along with a minimalist style, highlights every situation’s underlying sense and blurs the line between reality and imagination. They might be sons, uncles, lovers, queer men, traitors and travellers, the protagonists of these short fictions still come together as they challenge their identity, their sexuality and their relationship with others in a critical moment condensed in time and space. Ensuing from the creative part’s narratological issues, “Why refuse oneself, tonight, to this supposition?” Imagination and narrative contamination in Marguerite Duras’s Dix heures et demie du soir en été studies this novel’s narrative adherence to the protagonist’s imagination. Our essay analyses how the narration’s gaze and internal focalization are contaminated by the main character’s growing emotion and apprehensions initiated by desire, while assisting the book’s cognitive objective: making passion its central event.
Mancas, Magdalena Silvia. "Pour une esthétique du mensonge : nouvelle autobiographie et postmodernisme." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007CLF20018.
Full textDe, Iglesias Edyala. "Le labyrinthe en miroirs d’Eva. Le mythe de l’éternel féminin et l’anti-héroïne : du roman au film : Camille/Le roman de Marguerite Gauthier et A hora da estrela/L’heure de l’étoile." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030046/document.
Full textThe critical analysis of the personages Marguerite Gauthier and Macabéa in the films -Camille / Le roman de Marguerite Gauthier, 1936 and A hora da estrela /The hour of the star,1986 - seeks to understand the mechanisms by which the myth of the eternal feminine ensures its permanence in contemporary women’s imaginary as an image-reference. The first section of the thesis focus the power of looking by an analytical approach between the stereotypes of the colonized body and the feminine body, identified as the “other” in the colonial discourse. The second section is a historical and critical analysis of the eternal feminine represented by the emblematic personage of Marguerite Gauthier, performed by Greta Garbo, and the resignifications of this myth by the contemporary media. The third section is a critical reflection about the feminine outsider, represented by the personage of Macabéa, by questioning the reception of the myth and its influence on the women’s creative process. This work focuses on the concept of 'experience' as a central element for the articulation of "others' perspectives, while questioning the relationship between film, feminine and narrative
Rascle, Floriane. "Écritures dramatiques et romanesques des XXe et XXIe siècles à l’épreuve des arts non verbaux. Modèles et dispositifs." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA110.
Full textThe observation of the presence of non verbal arts within the works of Marguerite Duras, Lawrence Durrell, Elfriede Jelinek and Péter Nádas leads us to examine the musicality and the iconicity of contemporary dramatic and novelistic writings in terms of model, pattern and devices. Dialogue, hybridization, polyphony, dialogism, intermediality, and what Jacques Rancière calls “impurification” within the “Aesthetic Regime of Art”, display the dreams, desires and longings of verbal art for other arts, but also for representations whose artistic content is arguable. The fact that contemporary writings produce an organic, sexual, erotic, even pornographic body invites us to focus on the interactions between arts and non-arts with regard to their performative devices and to propose a queer reading of the works. In Postmodernism, the fact that writings draw on non verbal forms can be understood as the expression of the failure of Logos – both language and reason – and of representation. Moreover, what is also at stake is an aesthetic and political reform of literature. Whether they tend to impose new verbal models or break into them, non verbal arts contribute not only to reshape literary forms but also to emphasize their political substance and renew their fictional content. This dissertation aims to investigate the crossroads between aesthetics and politics that the various relationships between verbal and non-verbal arts display, from mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, within Literature, the verbal art par excellence
PAILLARD, MARIE CHRISTINE. "Viginia woolf, marguerite yourcenar : ecriture du temps, ecriture du roman." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030141.
Full textViala, Fabienne. "Marguerite Yourcenar, Alejo Carpentier : écritures de l'histoire." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030155.
Full textMarguerite Yourcenar, the member of the French Academy (1903/1987) and the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier (1904/1980) chose History as the material for their fictions. They both believe that, on the one hand, knowing the past is the better way of knowing mankind; on the other hand, the novel is the path leading to a true version of remote events. The fiction, better than factual historiography, digs out the invariant characteristics of human nature and joins up past and present. With the character, we travel through a chaotic historical period and at the same time, his individual destiny reaches a mythical sense. The works of art reflect themselves on the narration, bring the remote time closer and reveal the universal drama of human condition. Urging the reader to look at himself through the mirror of the past, the novel is moved by the humanist belief that, even if history is constantly being remade, culture can enlighten and improve the humanity
Fort, Pierre-Louis. "Écriture et deuil : la mort chez Marguerite Yourcenar, Simone de Beauvoir et Annie Ernaux." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070029.
Full textUpon the death of his father, freud affirmed that there is nothing more painful for a man than the death of his father. Is the death of the mother, then, the most painful event for a woman? using a theoretical framework drawn from sociology, psychoanalysis, and the history of ideas this study explores the works of three major women authors of the twentieth century, marguerite yourcenar, simone de beauvoir, and annie ernaux who consecrated a significant portion of their writing to the loss of their mother. The heart of this study is the exploration of bereavement centered around analyses of souvenirs pieux, les charités d'alcippe, une mort très douce, une femme, and "je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit". In order to better single out the unique textual and human experience of each author in question, this study begins with monographic analyses. However despite the three authors' poetic and aesthetic diversity, this study concentrates on the common point uniting their texts: the existence of the death scene, a foundational and fertile thanatic moment which is at once the origin and endpoint of writing. Daughter-mother, mother-daughter: these texts of grief are grounded in an intrinsically feminine relationship that harks back to the problematic of écriture feminine. But if these texts indulge in and play with it, they also surpass it. This dissertation identifies and develops the notion of writing that is not simply feminine but rather transfeminine. The works studied can be seen as transfeminine thanatographies, scriptural incarnations of bereavement that arise as much out of grief as they come to terms with it
Sauvebelle, Agnès-Laure. "Eros et Thanatos dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040406.
Full textThe subject of this study is a thematic analysis of desire and death in the novels of Marguerite Yourcenar. The mythic figures of Eros and Thanatos can be found in all the novels of this author and our goal is to show the various representations of these figures in the following works: Le coup de grace, Anna, soror. . . , Denier du rêve, Mémoires d'Hadrien, L'oeuvre au noir, Un homme obscur and Alexis et le traité du vain combat. In each instance, Marguerite Yourcenar treats the concept Eros - Thanatos differently; it is thus necessary to analyze successively these variations. To the exception of Alexis et le traité du vain combat, our study presents the novels in a chronological order in order to distinguish an evolution of the thematical concept of desire and death in the fictional works of this author. As a result, we see that her later works illustrate an increased openness towards desires as well as a more serene acceptance of human finiteness. The quintessential thought of the writer acquires thus a larger vision leading to the final detachment from earthly concerns
Zdrada-Cok, Magdalena. "Les figures de Narcisse dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030069.
Full textThis work combines the reflection on the update of Narcissist myth and the analysis of narcissism in the works by Marguerite Yourcenar. The graduate devaluation of the motif of the mirror reflection is depicted here. First this motif expresses the symbolist issues of knowing oneself, then it portrays the disintegration of personality and eventually it comes to the final questioning of the existence of a person itself. Psycho-analytic reading enables the studies of extreme Narcissist behaviours such as: frozen feelings, pursuing oneself in the other, impinging oneself onto the others, megalomania, closing in oneself. The issues of alchemy and Buddhism, which dominates first of all in The Abyss and in subsequent works, emerges as a method of overcoming narcissism present in novels of the thirties and in Memoirs of Hadrian. At last the concept of autobiography, which is illustrated in the trilogy The World Labyrinth and which is consistent with the Buddhist vision of the world,. .
Chalaye, Sylvie. "Du noir au nègre à travers le théâtre français (1550-1960) : l'image du Noir de Marguerite de Navarre à Jean Genet." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030053.
Full textThis research aims to analyze the image of the black man in french drama, as seen by whites, from the renaissances to the twentieth century, and in particular from the first representations of the black magus to theatrical attempts to destroy the "nigger" character on the eve of decolonization. We intend to consider the black man as dramatic character. Above all, however, by studying the theater, we strive to understand how cliches and stereotypes from which the "nigger" originated were formed. Whilst the black man was only a vague color during the renaissance, he was enveloped in a shell of prejudice which gradually locked him into the image of the "nigger"; we attempt to analyze these successive strata of ideological and cultural concretions. The theater is consequently primarily considered here as reflection of society and the survey makes ample use of the press to assess the changes in mentalities and to draw a history of how the public reacted to the black man in drama. The study is presented in chronological order and implements the political and economic environment within which the plays and shows under consideration lie. Closely linked to the political context, representations of the "nigger" were both objets of censorship and instrumental in propaganda. This history of the image of the image of the black man in theater is also regularly clarified by means of a study of the iconography and in particular of representations of blacks in art, as artist' aesthetic research, as well as the ideological influence they undergo, are often at one with those of playwrights
Torres, Mariño Vicente. "Grèce et Orient dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar : sources, confrontations, échanges." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030016.
Full textGreece and Orient can be seen as the two great sources of Yourcenar's writing, viewed here through the converging prism of surmounted contradictions and the methodological tools they propose, from logos or myth as the vision of universality, to ritual and adoration as the threshold where profane meets divine. Referring to the Greek schools of philosophy, dominated by stoicism, or to such mystical oriental tendencies as Buddhism, Yourcenar's writing begins by sanctifying reality before integrating it into a paradoxically creative void, a universe of nothingness or of plenty, where the characters' nuclear conception of self, dislocated by a diastolic back-beat, merges into the cosmos, annihilating categories of thought and language, mirages of memory and time. Visible at the outset, over the years this Greek-Oriental theme declines to an imperceptible thread in the writing of novels ranging from Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat to Un homme obscur
Balbi, Toussaint Étienne. "Étude de la représentation du discours alchimique dans la fiction au XXème siècle à travers des exemples tirés des oeuvres de René Barjavel, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Paulo Coelho, Marguerite Yourcenar, Michel Butor." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030080.
Full textThe research of the connections between alchemy and literature shall be considered as a way through the literary works of seven authors (successively: Barjavel, Saint-Exupéry, Calvino, Coelho, Eco, Yourcenar, Butor), in order to determine the conditions of exchange between the imaginary of alchemic cosmogony and the fictional universe created by each author. This research, starting from the texts which propose involuntary relatives of imaginary to those which representation of the Grand Oeuvre becomes mimetic, should provide for a global view of the phenomenon of alchemy in literature which would allow, by releasing semantic invariants from narrative configuration and from the request of sense of the texts, to create general reading guidelines, proposing accurate criteria. These criteria, by defining the principals of an alchemic fiction as a new literary object would allow, being applied to any new text, to consider such new text as an alchemic fiction or not. This comparative exercise shall allow reflecting the exchange between literature and its exogenous speeches, in order to understand how literature reproduces and multiplies such speeches
Krempp, Peggy. "Perspective existentielle de la foi dans les oeuvres de Marguerite de Navarre." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2007. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2007/KREMPP_Peggy_2007.pdf.
Full textA precise reading of the works of Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) reveals the importance of faith in God and the necessity of believing, to apprehend existence. This study thus aims at analyzing, in the whole of her literary output (poetry, theatre, short stories) and her correspondence, the contribution of the divine to the comprehension of human destiny, through the opening out of faith and the desire for God, as well as the value which is conferred to them. As a matter of fact, a logic of belief, based on a network of certainties centered on the divine one, is essential like the means of obtaining the sens of existence, the evaluation of this one and the elucidation of notions which are inherent to it. Faith furthermore allows the going beyond, by its metamorphosis, of human nature, which hinders so much man, according to the queen. Faith so constitutes the founder access to an ideal of freedom and comprehension, role definitively confirmed by the destabilizing experience of pain
Poignault, Rémy. "L'antiquité dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar : littérature, mythe et histoire." Tours, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993TOUR2002.
Full textLefebvre, Ariane. "La poétique du Mirouer chez Marguerite Porete : construction d'une théologie vernaculaire." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33472.
Full textMarguerite Porete, with her Mirouer written between the 13th and the 14th century, has managed to transform the theological discourse into a singular mystical work in French, which presents itself as a spiritual quest of the Soul, whose guides, Love and Reason, compete for the discursive preeminence until Divine Love prevails and the soul is annihilated in him. This study seeks to break the shimmering surface of the work, to reflect on the senefiance of this "mirror" offered to the reader. If it is not a question here of proposing a new historical and theological analysis of Marguerite Porete's heretical remarks, this memoir suggests a reading of the Mirouer from a literary point of view. Its starting point lies in the observation that the text proposes a female voice doubly marginal, by its genre and by its language, French, for a theological purpose. The idea was therefore to see how far the image of the mirror could be used and how the conflict present in its dual nature, that of an optical object of knowledge and that of a courteous object, could help to understand the text. Through detailed observation of the courtly and allegorical components of the work, we hope to identify the peculiarities of a treatise whose forms of discourse join theology and literature in a mystical ensemble that differs from traditional didactic and spiritual works. By highlighting the constituent elements of the book, in relation to a known didactic genre, that of the mirror, we want to demonstrate how this tradition confronts itself to and unites with a courteous and lyrical language, which makes it possible to propose an original theological teaching since it advocates, with the annihilation of reason, its own annihilation. In this way, we propose to reflect on the elaboration of this mystical discourse through its courteous and allegorical attributes in order to better understand the construction of this original Mirouer.
Baranès-Gorelick, Gisèle. "Permanence du mythe du Minotaure dans la littérature française du XXe siècle." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030026.
Full textThe myth of the Minotaur is the symbol of the fight of the conscious against the unconscious. We think that M. Yourcenar has used the schema of the Psyche given by Jung, and that she has built each one of her personages according to it. The labyrinth would be the Unconscious, and the Minotaur would represent the Self, that has to be to explore without fear to find in it the hidden energy that will allow us to fight against our human condition and to reach the eternity. Ariane would incarnate the Anima, who, to reach the Unconscious, has to take the bridge of the Animus, (Thesée). But Thesée lack the moral strength to play this role, so Ariane changes her mind and decide to choose the Buddhist way of life that will allow her, with no help, to reach the Nirvana, after having accomplished the necessary purifications. Montherlant has preferred to focuse his play on the personage of Pasiphae. She is the symbol of the right to undifferentiated love; her main revendication is the right to love all of God's creatures without distinction. We think that such an interpretation of this part of the myth reveals the real problem of Montherlant: the desire for incest. With the help of Freud's psychoanalysis, explained by J. Chasseguet-Smirgel, we have studied the perversion of Montherlant. It seems that he has reported his love for his mother on young boys and on animals. The writing of this play was for him a myth therapy because it has given to him a way to realize, in imagination, his forbidden love. For both authors, this myth has offered a model of behaviour, the hope and the mean to realize one's self. Because of that, we can say that this myth is still relevant in the XXth Century
Hébert, Julie. "L'essai chez Marguerite Yourcenar : métamorphoses d'une forme ouverte." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030029.
Full textThrough the variety of themes and forms offered by Marguerite Yourcenar's essays, the "portrait of a voice" progressively takes shape, inclining the reader to ponder, after the essayist herself, Jorge Luis Borges's warning : "A writer thinks he is tackling a lot of subjects; what he leaves behind, however - if he is lucky - is an image of himself". The essays, in which two contadictory conceptions of time and identity constantly clash, testify to the way the "self" resists its extinction, strongly recommended by the "I", which remains supreme beyond the metamorphoses. From the first essays, in which the young "Marg Yourcenar", in a tense and ornate style, appears to be both alarmed and enchanted by the decline of the West, to the last remarks jotted down in her notebooks, the recurring metaphor of the erosion conveys the extent to which the form is being refined, as well as the self-portrait that emerges from it. The process involves a conception of time that wavers between the flowing and the permanent, and brings forth the value given to the moment, first step towards the "sympathetic magic" which enables the reader to settle at any point of the human time. Thus expanded to the dimensions of the universal "constellation" born of random, or highly determined, encounters, the irrepressible "self" still embodies the resurgences of the individuality, accepted at last as a path towards the universal. After writing essays for fifty years, Marguerite Yourcenar conquered the liberty that defines the form and borders on the autobiographical, when she finally allowed its metamorphoses to closely match the fluidity of the individual life
Lukajic, Radana. "L'écriture de l'histoire et l'écriture de soi dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2031.
Full textIn our paper, we suggest two planes of the examination of Marguerite Yourcenar’s major novels: on the one hand, her novels are seen as a form of a narrative indistinguishably associated with a mythic vision of the world; on the other hand, they are seen as the writing of the self, utterly defined by the concepts based on Buddhism that denounce the illusion of ‘’I’’ and substantially leave out the notion of identity. Having stated this, we endeavor to show that the autobiographical writing of the author in question becomes greatly problematized as it is being misinterpreted as a heterobiographic piece of writing. We have also tried to clear out some uncertainties about themes and narrative procedures which are the basis of generic fluctuations of Marguerite Yourcenar’s novels
Qader, Fatima. "L' écriture féminine contemporaine et les représentations de la femme dans "Feux" de Marguerite Yourcenar, "Loin de Médine" d'Assia Djebar et "Te di la vida entera" de Zoé Valdés." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CLF20013.
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