French New Novelist Michel Butor defies the optimistic vision of four elements of nature developed by his ancient professor of philosophy in Sorbonne, Gaston Bachelard, between 1938 and 1961. Bachelard considers air, water, fire and earth as possessors of qualities and moral values like purity, which allows them to contribute to the transformation ...
The presence of the epistolary material in Marguerite Duras’s literary work evolves from its canonical definition as a means of communication to its progressive problematization. In Aurélia Steiner (1979) the letter becomes the enunciation device of the narrative to materialize its destruction: the epistolary sender becomes an I emptied of ipseity ...
The present article aims to analyse the presence of the epistolary material in the work of Robert Pinget. Essential author of the French New Novel, the writer instrumented the letter device in favor of the rupture practices of this literary renewal, in order to convey the expression of subjectivity. In the field of theatrical experimentation, Pinge...
The present article analyzes the roots of the famous formula, “the American Marvelous Real,” first published by Alejo Carpentier in 1948. The analysis suggests that the origins of this proposal can be traced to his first novel, ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó! (1927-1933). Its “Negrism” would later be revised and corrected in Carpentier´s second novel, which marked ...
Les neufs chapitres qui constituent les trois parties de notre recherche consacrée à l'oeuvre de Palazzeschi (la période symboliste, la période futuriste, les oeuvres de la maturité et de la vieillesse) se proposent de démontrer que, en alternant écriture poétique et écriture en prose, Palazzeschi oscille entre continuité et rupture. On reconnaîtra...
Les "Romanesques" d'Alain Robbe-Grillet subvertissent le genre autobiographique traditionnel au profit d'une nouvelle autobiographie ou la confusion des différentes instances de discours brouille volontairement la réception du message. Cette démarche traduit la perte du sujet, qui, après s'être décomposé, tend a se régénérer par une écriture dont l...
