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Ahn, Hyosook. "Énonciation et narration dans le théâtre de Beckett : Les récits intérieurs des personnages beckettiens." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030023.
Full textShim, Hyun. "La théâtralisation de l'absurde chez Adamov, Beckett et Ionesco." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002CLF20006.
Full textRahbari, Morvarid. "Le féminin dans l’œuvre dramatique de Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA148/document.
Full textIn Samuel Beckett’s works the female characters are seen to be absent at the beginning, but throughout the story their presence becomes more significant, and represents the different images of the female characters.The female characters in his work expand and grow constantly.To understand the female characters, we need to analyze the languages that have been used by each character. The languages provide a different image which highlights the identity of each character. They also cover many areas such as body, gestural, scenic, and pictorial. This research paper helps us to better understand how Samuel Beckett deals with feminine in his works, and highlights the major features of the female characters
Tesanovic, Biljana. "Cohérence formelle et dynamique dans la trilogie de Samuel Beckett." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081502.
Full textThe critical discourse surrounding beckett's opus is, in reality, no more than a repetition of the meta-discourse of "failure" that the work develops within itself by means of its narrators. Thus the trilogy, contrary to general opinion, is a perfectly controlled and coherent construction in which the so-called failure achieves, through the diversity of its forms, an oppositional function that gives the text its dynamic. Conceived as an open structure, the work is open to reality : that of the writer, samuel beckett. A system of projection of narrators, possessing trans-textual knowledge, creates three levels of novelistic discourse ; each level is situated at one further remove from the author's reality. The trilogy is also open to fiction since its novelistic spaces are inter-linked via three writing programmes, activated in the english molloy, each of which coincides with one of the novels in the trilogy. These programmes are to be considered as three stages of a single identatory and scriptual goal belonging to one common narrator. Furthermore, they are contained within a larger programme, infinite in principal, and of which the trilogy itself is, in turn, only a stage. On the identatory level, there are two programmes that exist in ___oppositipn : one actualised but rejected, the other desired but considered inaccessible. These are the source of a textual dynamic, that is constantly renewed by a painful quest for the self, through the several hypostases of the m-character. The textual dynamic is equally created by the interdependence of the levels of signification, particularly in malone dies, which functions as an auto-analytical text
Terlemez, Serpil Ekin. "Le Théâtre innommable de Samuel Beckett." Paris 8, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA083134.
Full textThis thesis consists of a detailed study of the plays and other self-translated works of Samuel Barclay Beckett that sought to break with the tradition of theatre that entertains. It is an analysis of the poet's love of languages evident in his distinct wordcraft deployed in the search of a unique idea. Beckett was trying to find a new melody or theme when translating. His self-translations aim above all to keep true to the essence or reason of his works. He treats the individual words as musical notes that are totally subordinate to the themes, which he manipulates as a puppeteer controls his puppets. The writing of Beckett most resembles jazz music with its positive emphasis on rhythms that fuse various themes. His plays create a poetic, cultural, linguistic, and philosophical fusion enriched by the cross-fertilisation between these elements. The identity of the works of Beckett emerges from this “synthesis of differences” and from his desire to exceed himself and to free himself of his urge to shield his inner thoughts
Nishimura, Izumi. "Samuel Beckett : un univers polyphonique." Paris 8, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA083616.
Full textThis is a hermeneutical study which encompasses genetic criticism in an attempt to reveal the development of inner consciousness of the subjects by analysing the intrinsic structure of Samuel Beckett’s work. It is common to emphasize the loss a posteriori of the identity of a subject in the Beckett’s world with negative terms connected with despair. However, according to the rewritings of English and French versions of his works, and of both manuscripts and published texts, we can stress the importance residing in the interchangeability or the discrepancy of many subjects in the microcosmic space. These atomic subjects have no relationship with human functions such as will, feelings or communication; they are originally absent, but murmur without the assistance of a given language. By drawing, in particular, on the concepts of polyphony (Bakthin) and multiplicity (Deleuze), we have mainly analysed Beckett’s novels and proses according to the following chapters: 1. Struggle / Carnival, 2. Polyphony / Universe, 3. Inclusive imagination. Beckett first tried to distinguish his story from a normative narrative, then made several linguistic experiments by setting up a closed space, and finally gave intrinsic powers to that space. With the new canons which were imposed on himself while writing, he got to keep the linguistic systems suspended in the air. His texts, his writings and his characters are not finished entities; they always remain in a dynamic relation to one another
Makki, Ebrahim. "L'expressionnisme dans le theatre de samuel beckett." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040105.
Full textNon of the schools of dramatic arts appears spontaneously, nor disapears for ever. It is generally constructed by denying the principles of a previous school, even though it may keep some of the major elements of that school. On the basis of such an observation the traces of expressionism in beckett's works will be underlined without ignoring the contributions of symbolism to these two forms of theatre. Therefore, the construction of this study is composed of two different sections : in the first section by studying the symbolist and expressionist theatre, we will pave the necessary ways to enter to the second section. In the second section to support our hypothesis, we will put forward arguments which are the results of our detailed study of the sound and image in beckett's theatre
Hedberg, Teri Lynn. "D'une langue à l'autre : l'œuvre romanesque de Samuel Beckett." Paris 7, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA070120.
Full textIn this study we have taken the fiction of Samuel Beckett in its entirety from 1929 to 1989. By treating the work in chronological order, we have traced a clear progression and restored cohesion to an author still close to us. Language remains a decisive element. Thus our first part deals with the work in English of the young Beckett, often not well known in France. Our second part deals with the work of Beckett in its apogee. Written directly in French between 1946 and 1951, this work is particularly striking by a change of voice tied to the language (French) and the first person. Our third part deals with the late work of Beckett where there is a progressive return to English. Beckett, however, continues to advance the norms of literature. We have ended our study with an analysis of fundamental themes in the work of Beckett. Beckett has thus succeeded in describing par excellence in his work the human condition
Das, Soumitro. "La Trilogie de Samuel Beckett : une étude." Paris 7, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA070047.
Full textThis thesis is an interpretation of the trigoly of samuel beckett, an attempt to determine the meaning of the for a modern reader. To this end, we have chosen to place ourselves in a certain perspective, familiar and strange, which is that of the subject. This allows us to refer to disciplines such as the anthropology of religion, psychoanalysis, etc. , as well as the biography of the author. We have been able, thus, to relate the text to such primordial influences such as protestantism, but also to a subjective formation from which we could derive the psychological factors which have shaped the work in this fashion. The trilogy is, for us, a work which speaks of the speaking subject at the deepest level possible, that of the unconscious
Lim, Soo-Hyun. "Les Figures du "double" chez Samuel Beckett." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040231.
Full textThe signifier of doubt, heterogeneousness and otherness of the subject, in literature the double generally introduces a conflictory relationship between the self and the other. The world of Samuel Beckett is marked by the motif of the double, from his personal beginnings to his last texts. A writer divided between two worlds, those of Ireland and France, English and French, in short, " myself " and the other, in his life and writing, Beckett continually calls into quessiton the identity of the subject, testifying to the emergence of two contradictory presences, at once the same and different, which result in the various figurations of doubleness - expresser and expressed, perceiver and perceived, deviser and devised, creator and created, voice and body. Beckett's rigour and particularity lie in this persistent and continual quest after the self, which can be characterised as the aesthetics of the double
Leblanc, Évelyne. "Samuel Beckett : étude stylistique du langage dramatique." Paris 12, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA120056.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is the style study through s. Beckett's works : en attendant godot, fin de partie, oh les beaux jours. The guiding principle can be found in larthomas's the dramatic language. The first part of the work is endeavouring to demonstrate how s. Beckett tries to bypass the end results of basic communication in order to give them a new disconcerting appearance. The second part defines the various means used by the author in order to remain, in spite of their appearance, the dramatic efficiency of his works
Guérin, Thierry. "L'histoire de Sam : jeu de lettres, jeu de langues dans la trilogie "Compagnie", "Mal vu mal dit", "Worstward Ho" de Samuel Beckett." Bordeaux 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR30032.
Full textRaisseix, Cécile. "La filiation dans l'oeuvre théâtrale de Samuel Beckett." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030141.
Full textFiliation is a major concept in the poetics of S. Beckett's theatre. This thesis is an attempt to demonstrate how the different ramifications (legal, biological, imaginary) of this issue are mobilised in his writing. Research in clinical psychopathology provides us with a framework for an enhanced understanding of events which can be accounted for in terms of "symbolicide", the violent and morbid nature of which, be it death, serious accident or suicide, render notions of inheritance and heritage insignificant. Family secrets, adoption, foundlings, and unknow origins bring to the fore the effects of negative narcissism which endows continuity between generations with a pathological character and confers a tragic connotation upon family destinies. .
Mével, Yann. "L'imaginaire mélancolique dans les romans en langue française de Samuel Beckett." Rennes 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003REN20055.
Full textWithin a multidisciplinary approach, this thesis sets out to verify the fecundity of the concept of "mélancolie" for a general study of the imaginary world in French-language novels by Samuel Beckett, from Murphy to Comment c'est. Whereas Dream of Fair to Middling Women abounds in references to The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, Murphy, beyond a psychiatric knowledge, makes light of a pre-scientific imagery of melancholy. Our hypothesis is that the latter underlies much more widely a novel such as Molloy, criss-crossed by a network of melancholic signs which the works of Hubertus Tellenbach, and metapsychology, enable us to decipher. Out of Beckett's imagery springs a way of coming to terms with the Object, from which writing attempts to free itself. This perceived, the beckettian melancholy would be the experience of collapsing limits, starting with those of the character who borrows from one role to the next the attributes of tutelar figures belonging to the melancholy imagery. The inherent instability of representations may come to be seen as the effect of a specular fault which we examine in this work through the hammering of a scopic pulsion. The concept of "mélancolie" brings us back to the fundamental challenges of the imaginary world, through its possibility of even coming to life, in that it touches on the raw the issue of the subject, in his relationship to himself as well as to his reader
Sardin, Pascale. "Pour une poétique de la traduction de soi : lecture bilingue et génétique des textes courts auto-traduits de Samuel Beckett (1946-1980)." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30038.
Full textAt the juncture of several languages and idioms - french, english, anglo-irish - and of several domains of research and textual analysis: literature and translation theory on the one hand, stylistics, psychoanalysis and variorum study on the other, this thesis aims at delineating how samuel beckett rewrites his texts when he self-translates them. The corpus, comprising most of the + shorter; texts, both prose and drama, spans the years 1946-1980. The research, which relies mainly on a comparative reading of the twin versions, while revealing the modified topography of the self-translated text, also takes greatly into account the bilingual draft versions which are studied in detail in the annexed document (vol. Ii). After analysing the psychological issues linked to the fact of rewriting in another language, the focus is put on the evolution of beckett's style. As a self-translator, beckett works on the two axes of discourse, sensitive to the rhythmic and aural aspect of his texts. The art of self-translation is a parodic art, as is the author's style: a combinatory art, it is also a disjunctive art; an art of inflexion, it relies upon a droll humour as well as on a harsh pessimism; an art of lessening, it prefers to be laconic, while liking to create a rich discordant polyphonic language with foreign accents, keen on contradiction, word-play, and cliche. This paradoxical economy follows the lines of a schizomorph structure. It is that of the freudian unconscious which surfaces in the discourse of a psychotic subject. Thus, each text exists conjointly with its double, offering two displaced, de-centred visions of the ego and of its relationship to the outer world and to himself. That is why it is possible to say that this poetics of self-translation (meaning + way of doing ;) defines a poetics of translation of the self (meaning + motif ; and + operating programme ; of the writer). In a state of helplessness, beckett's narrators keep stumbling on the signifiers of madness and death. Even if they happen to approach them through repetition in the other language, they part from them inevitably, to and fro at each new version of the texts, experiencing the gist of tragedy
Gesvret, Guillaume. "Samuel Beckett, plasticité littéraire et modernités artistiques." Paris 7, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA070064.
Full textIn spite of its tendency towards minimalism, Samuel Beckett's literary, theatrical and televised work resonates far and wide within the history of representations. This opening questions a pure literary domain by giving its value to the plastic dimension of the writing, bound to an attempt to "overflow" the words beyond themselves. Between the plastic crisis in literary form and the affected crises of the subject that it continues to represent, Beckett's worl calls up many issues belonging to modernity in philosophy, psychoanalysis and aesthetics. Given to experimenting with gestures, visions and the more imperceptible figurai processes, at the very edge of words, this work questions both the possibility of writing the unbearable and the possibility of reading and connecting it to the comparative and interdisciplinary mode. Between literature and what lies beyond it, Beckett's writing may therein open onto other aesthetic territories and other generically unstable forms: from literary epiphany to pictorial detail, from the tableau vivant to the installation, from the perspective of the material crises of the pictorial and the scenic
Tisserand-Simon, Corinne. "Structure et interprétation dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Bordeaux 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR30043.
Full textChalkiadaki-Michalas, Niki. "Le baroquisme dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Dijon, 1995. https://nuxeo.u-bourgogne.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/52a702a8-4c76-406f-bc4a-9a1a5b4165bc.
Full textThis critical study attempts to uncover the baroque elements in the theatre of Samuel Beckett, which is reknown for its ascetism. As the baroque heroes, the beckettian characters are versatile and fluctate continuously between illusion and reality and attempt to conceal the precariousness of the existence by finding ways to divert themselves and others through verbal games and actions. Furthermore, one can find complementary or antithetical pairing of people, like the famous couples of the sixtheenth and seventeenth century, and the characters's miror image or hallucinations. One can add the following elements : the transgression of the bienseance code, the emergence of paradoxical situations, a rampant cruelty, the coincidentia between life and death, the distorsion of all hierarchies, the parodying of ideologies, especially of the theatre, the eccentricity of costumes stage and make-up, and the artificiality of movement and verbal expression. Finally, the plays reveals a mixture of genres, languages and expressions, the contrapuntal use of light or music with speech, the use of mirroring games, repetitions, mise en abyme and lastly the play within a play
Park, Myung-Hee. "L'humour et le tragique dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Toulouse 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991TOU20036.
Full textThis work is an anatomy of beckett's theatrical creation in the context of humour's literature of 20th century. This allow us to observer, on the hand that a play even like waiting for godot would, in spite of the apparent abandon of conventional status, be placed under the general law of theatre; and the other hand, that the beckett's tragic progresstowards the macabre humour. Thus, his humour become the privileged expression of the tragic who represent the absurdity and the "nonsens" of the human condition
Maloney, Cahill B. Claire. "Samuel Beckett and the Irish grotesque tradition." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22606.
Full textAfter an initial chapter on the relevant theoretical and national considerations, the prodigious cloacal visions of Beckett and Joyce are compared, with emphasis on their use of the grotesque to demythologize the creative process. A fourth chapter compares O'Brien's and Beckett's exploitation of the grotesque to undermine hegemonic philosophical and epistemological systems.
Like most writers of the grotesque tradition, Joyce and O'Brien assume a degree of moral responsibility by affirming, explicitly or implicitly, some traditional or utopian values and standards, while Beckett's deliberations on the complex relationship between Nature, the mind and the body end in negation, impotence and the hope of silence.
Lecossois, Hélène. "Le babel des silences et des mots : le langage dramatique dans "Play", "Come and go", "Not I", "That time", "Footfalls" et "Rockaby" de Samuel Beckett." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030129.
Full textCollinge, Linda. "L'imaginaire du traducteur littéraire d'après les auto-traductions de Samuel Beckett." Reims, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REIML006.
Full textThis dissertation confronts the translation process, especially translators' interpretations of original texts, and reception theories. If the imagination is at work in the translating process, how does it intervene - as an aid, as a hindrance - and what are its effects ? Applying the theory developped by michel picard - "la lecture comme jeu" - to one translation and three selftranslations by Samuel becket is effective in providing answers to these questions and in revealing four functions of the literary translator's imagination. The comparative study of five translations of Arthur Rimbaud’s "bateau ivre", including beckett's "drunken boat", reveals an "alienating function" of the imagination : the translator, a victim of his imagination, produces an interpretation of the text which reflects his personal obsessions. In the translating of the play happy days into oh les beaux jours, the "playing function" is at work. This function is defined as a capacity of the imagination to authorize lexical or syntactical changes or to facilitate acts of symbolization. The microanalysis of the novel malone meurt and its translation malone dies reveals a "managing function", a tendancy of the imagination to avoid pain and to keep all forms of displeasure at a distance ; but becket also uses the "transgressing function" when his imagination challenges linguistic conventions and creates original equivalents. Introducing the third person singular in the prose poem stirrings still creates a certain narrative distance and thus facilitates the intervention of the "playing function" when beckett translates the poem into soubresauts. Conscious of the risks involved in translating his own works, beckett is no longer hindered by his imagination but uses it rather freely and effectively
Ha, Youn-Kum. "Interprétation et production du texte déviant : Fin de partie, de Samuel Beckett." Paris, EHESS, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990EHES0314.
Full textOur thesis is the work about the problem of manifestation, which is issued of the relation of the manifest and the manifested. The term of the manifestation is key-word for the comprehension of semiotic's work and semiotic's epistemology. At first, for our objective, we facuse on the notion of text in so far as the manifest and the manifested. The problem of the relation between the manifest and the manifested is bound directely with a principal dichotomy of the form and the substance. The two concepts explain the methodology of semiotic theory. During the processus of analysis, the dichotomy of the manifest and the manifgested is very often confused with the dichotomy of expression and content. For the semiotic's, the separation of the plan of expression and the plan of content is anterior to the separation of form (the manifested) and substance (the manifest). After these previous discussion, we begin our analysis of samuel beckett's text, "endgame"
Walker, Dominic. "Beckett & economics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78229/.
Full textHudhomme, Solveig. "L'élaboration du mythe du soi dans l'œuvre de Samuel Beckett." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA083891.
Full textThis thesis concerns the way that Samuel Beckett’s works build a myth of their own, the myth of a space, a permanent inner space going beyond the textual boundaries. Our study is to consider this inner place as the place of « the self », in other words, a place released from biography, from the « ego » but also a place in which some invariants can be found. Our research begins with a questioning on the concept of « myth » : we highlight the way stories introduce a principle of repetition so that the reader can recognize a place, a narrative, a character. As the story develops, contingency slowly grows into necessity. Beckett’s works are based on the idea of a single entity, an exposed interiority. This is why in a second part we focus on the eye, a major invariant which introduces the reader in a dramatic or narrative space whose set becomes ascetic and geometric. The « self » is then represented as an empty interority that both locutor and reader have to explore and experiment with, using all the ressources of staging and narration. The Beckettian works question the conditions of creation : seeing, staging, telling, some verbs we can use to reflect as well. The last step of our study deals with this « reflexive speaking » : what kind of linguistic scene does the representation of « self » involves ? We aim to see the « self » as the key of a fable, a fable in which words themselves become mythological entities
Nixon, Nicola C. "The unnamable text : a deconstructive reading of Beckett’s The unnamable." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25479.
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Hellman, Thomas. "Beckett, Babel et bilinguisme, suivi de, Espaces." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79945.
Full textCreative writing. I was born in Montreal of a French mother and a father from Texas. My work in creative writing consists of six short stories set between the three geographical poles of my existence: Quebec, the United States and France. I also wrote a French and English version of my short story entitled The Ghost of Old Man Beck. These stories explore, on a more personal and creative level, the questions of bilingualism, identity and creativity raised in my critical essay.
Brunette, Vinicius Cherobino. "Do narrar à beira da morte: uma leitura crítica de Malone Dies, de Samuel Beckett." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-25022019-105502/.
Full textMalone Dies was published in 1956 in English, being the second novel of what became Samuel Becketts trilogy. This work aims to study how the first person narrator, Malone, is able to establish, in 120 pages, a different kind of narration, full of uncertainties based upon aporia and in his memory in shambles, which leads the reader to an unstable ground in which the old certainties of the traditional novel are eliminated. The main goal of this dissertation is to explore how the historical materiality of both the period of the novels writing, the Second World War in occupied France, and that of its publication, soon after the war ended, are crucial points to this new type of narration developed by Samuel Beckett. At the same time, this project attempts to make its small contribution to the empiricist trend developed by many Becketts scholars which, in the last years, have focused on the historical materiality of the novelists production to confront the hitherto consensual idea that Samuel Beckett was an ahistorical author, focused only in metaphysical issues.
Mbama-Ngankoua, Yves. "Pensée et langage dans l'oeuvre romanesque et théâtrale de Samuel Beckett : Evolution, continuité ou rupture ?" Aix-Marseille 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX10028.
Full textWell-read in antic philosophy, influenced by schopenhauer and eastern mystics as well as the bible, beckett achieved an impressive work in methaphysics is the cornerstone. Giordano bruno, he unites the opposites. The characters either identify with jesus or with job. Suffering helps the individual find new ways forward. Language, from work to the next, becomes poorer. There is an orality myth. The style is learned as well as popular. The suffering individual's life always goes with a play aspect
Ravez, Stéphanie. "Verbal rétina : vision et représentation dans les première et dernière trilogies de Samuel Beckett." Dijon, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000DIJOL019.
Full textMouani, Imane. "Introduction à la relecture de Beckett : poétique de l'oeuvre-théorie, de Murphy à la Trilogie." Paris 8, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA082257.
Full textPoetics, as Henri Meschonnic defines it, is the study of literary specificity. But it is also and above all a research of the functionings and the historicities. As a criticism of the rhythm, it allows the recognition of the value - often over shadowed by traditions rooted in the literary criticism - and shows the limits of the concepts that represent the language as discontinuous. It is in this theoretical context that this work on Samuel Beckett is situated. Through our poetical approach of the Trilogy, on the light of the preceding texts, we are making a criticism of Beckett's criticism. We show how this latter confines in a thematic ressassement that is either a formalism that ignores historicity or a subjectivistic aesthetic. These reductions to which the specificity is exposed are already pointed out by Beckett himself in his writings. First, there are his essays on Joyce, Proust and on painting that display this strong idea on the vulnerability of the works faced with the incompetence of the existing means to conceive art and literature. Then, it is the specificity of his writing proper that shows us that those who write are the first to supply us with the means to think it over
Fraser, Graham 1966. "The self-conscious narrator in Beckett's trilogy /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59888.
Full textFournier, Lavergne Hélène. ""Je crois que je suis nulle part" : recherche de lieux dans les récits de Samuel Beckett." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20039.
Full textThe chronological study of Samuel Beckett's fiction shows the constitution of an original topography. In the first narratives, written in English, "Dream of fair to middling women" and "More pricks than kicks", the hero is an alter ego of the Irish writer. The story is set in Dublin where he lived as a child and as a young man. Beckett describes his country in a realistic way and writes in a complex style, influenced by his compatriot James Joyce. The hero feels both love and disgust towards his native country. In the next novels - Murphy and Watt - Beckett develops two important items: solipsism and madness. In "Watt" and in the first narratives in French, the landscape becomes anonymous but still evokes Ireland. At the same time, in the short stories written in French after W. W. II and later called nouvelles, the fictional hero is also the narrator. In the "Molloy" – "Malone dies" – "The unnamable" trilogy, the narrator becomes the one who is writing the text that we are reading, and we are brought to think that he is Beckett himself. But the one who speaks, the one who writes here, is obviously not Samuel Beckett, the man who lives in our world. He is located elsewhere. From the trilogy on, Beckett - in his prose works - is trying to describe this place "elsewhere". But this place is "unspeakable" because the writer has nothing but the "language of others" to describe it. The writer can only speak of his own exile, far from the world of others. Evoking the world in a kind of distance is the only way - for the writing part of Beckett - to evoke his own place. That's why Beckett writes about our world with so much nostalgia and so much art. In his advancing years, his prose works are looking more and more like poetry and the own place of the writer must probably be looked for directly in the text considered as a space
Wessler, Éric. "L'Ecriture spéculaire de Samuel Beckett, ou la littérature face à elle-même." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STR20001.
Full textThis is a study of self-reference and self reflexivity in Beckett's works, aiming to show that the author' s main preoccupation is to represent literature as such within his texts. First step defines the historical evolution of self-reflexive literary procedures, and how Beckett uses them radically. Next step holds that Beckett's writing is the result of a long self-referential constitution of the very idea of literature as it has been defined since German Romanticism. Self-reference evolves throughout Beckett's own career : specular writing appears to be the sign of a crisis in the Beckettian world and self. Self-reflexivity as a writing issue comes when identity is compomised : the Beckettian self finds or create in literature the only system by which he can build his identity ; specular writing, then, is a classic sign of Freudian melancholy
Chang, Joon Hwhan. "La dérision et la condition humaine dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Limoges, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIMO2007.
Full textFerrini, Jean-Pierre. "Dante et Beckett." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070074.
Full textDante is one of the most mentioned author in Samuel Beckett' s work. From his first youth fictions or poems, written in a satirical tone, to his period of maturity with works such as "How it is", "The Lost Ones" or "Compagny", words, characters, landscapes "of The Divine Comedy" appear extremely regularly. Such systematic textual relationships bring out the closeness between Dante and Beckett. Samuel Beckett's work is caught between Dante' Purgatory and Hell. His work is an "antipurgatory" which doesn't open, but closes the doors of paradise. No evident themes link Dante and Beckett except the flow from purgatory to hell, which undoes the "divinity" of Dante's poem. The conjundion "and" is the only one to translate the "disjonction" witch coordinates Dante and Beckett as two extremities, the zenith and the nadir, which never coincide. Beckett's reading is not admiring, but brutal, parodic, burlesque, and harms Dante's context. Irony and humour is the "razor" used by Beckett in order to separate "The Comedy" from the generated illusions. Dante' s statue which dominates our western culture would fall into pieces and the scattered ruins would constitute the historical consequence of six centuries of reading. Beckett maybe the first to incarnate the distance,"il lungo silenzio", which now separates us from Dante
Christofi, Christakis. "Oeuvre dramatique, oeuvre plastique, paradoxe et re-présentation chez Samuel Beckett." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10096.
Full textPenet-Astbury, Helen. "La trilogie de Beckett au croisement des frontières." Paris 7, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA070015.
Full textBeckett's first prose trilogy comes at a critical point in his oeuvre. It marks both what might have been the start of a career as a French language writer, but what was actually the start of his career as a bilingual writer. Both first work in French and self-translated work, the trilogy is ideally placed to approach the issue of crossing of borders. If the border between English and French is not the only one crossed here, it seems that the subsequent evolution of the oeuvre depends on the choice of a foreign language and that this choice brings it to occupy other borderline situations : a psychological border, and a linguistic border (within the language of initial composition, French). The characters who inhabit the Beckettian universe are not "complete" beings yet. Their psyche is at an intermediate stage between the void which precedes life and full psychic life of an individual. .
You, Kwang-Joo. "Eléments d'analyse comparée du théâtre de Beckett et de Ionesco." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081657.
Full textGavard-Perret, Jean-Paul. "L'Imaginaire paradoxal ou la création absolue dans les oeuvres dernières de Samuel Beckett." Chambéry, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998CHAML005.
Full textIn the Beckett's last works, pictures (in TV works) and texts (in short novels and poems) are not as important as the rythm which is achieved by what is eliminated between two words of two pictures. There is not cheap illusion in these last works. Beckett films and fictions achieved emotionnal response by many systems of extinguishings (voice, words, music, an so and so on). He uses only the essential details with the help of imagery. What Beckett creates is not what usually we use to see or read. So the world he shows is an unknown and original one near chaos. We can investigate these last works not in term of other existing genres of styles but as an unique art firm in themselves replete with their own inherent and paradoxal dynamics, "ambiance", invention, sequence, time, fragmentation to express such a blanck world
Choi, Young-Joo. "Théâtralité de l'inconnu : une étude poétique du théâtre de S. Beckett." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082081.
Full textBrown, Peter Robert 1963. "Narrative, knowledge and personhood : stories of the self and Samuel Beckett's first-person prose." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35856.
Full textI present an account of the notion of narrative and explore the nature of justified narrative assertions. I then turn to skeptical and anti-realist arguments about the ability of narratives to represent truthfully the world. Such arguments are widespread in postmodernist and poststructuralist circles, and in order to evaluate them, I consider particular arguments of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Christopher Norris and Hayden White, all of whom question the ability of narratives to be true. The positions of these theorists rely upon deep conceptual confusion, and, after sorting out their claims, I conclude that they offer no compelling reasons to doubt that narratives can accurately and truthfully represent the world.
Next, I offer an analysis of the relationship between the notion of personhood and narrative. I argue against postmodernist and poststructuralist critiques of subjectivity, and, drawing on the work of various contemporary philosophers, I defend notions of subjectivity and selfhood while acknowledging and examining the essentially narrative nature of such phenomena. The concept of a "personal history" receives detailed analysis, as does the notion of a "situated self." While agreeing with particular criticisms of what is often called the "modern self," I argue that there are specific normative projects of modernity, namely autonomy and self-realization, that are worth preserving.
Finally, I explore the themes of narrative, knowledge and personhood in the nouvelles of Samuel Beckett. These works represent crises of narrative and personhood, and they depict the epistemic and ethical difficulties encountered by persons under conditions of modernity, conditions in which individual lives often lack narrative unity and meaning. I read Beckett as a critic of culture whose work, while deeply critical of certain trends in modern culture, points to the need for individual subjects to find true and meaningful narratives in which they can participate as co-authors.
Chauvin, Clotilde. "Spécularité et jeux de miroirs dans l'oeuvre de Samuel beckett." Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX10071.
Full textBousquet, Mireille. "L'épuisement dans l'œuvre de Samuel Beckett : point critique ou lieu commun ?" Paris 8, 2009. http://octaviana.fr/document/152360212#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textThe purpose of this work is to examine the relevance of the term "exhaustion" for Samuel Beckett's poetics. The term exhaustion creates an ambivalence between exhaustiveness and emptiness, but also implies extreme tiredness, thus focusing on the question of the body, as the work of Gilles Deleuze, "L'Epuisé", demonstrates. Samuel Beckett has achieved a literary revolution through his exploration of thematics such as negativity, silence and nothing, coupled with the aim of instigating new ways of meaning. Ill-saying is the invention of new ways to make both English and French languages sound like a foreign language, through voice, prosody and translation. The question of bilingualism has the full impact of a critical tool inasmuch as the question of translation necessarily promotes a theory of language revolving around Emile Benveniste's notions of enunciation and discourse. The invention of a continued manner which includes novels, theatre, poetry or film relies on the creation of new ways of saying. The work on the voice shows the primacy of orality in literature. In Beckett's writing, seeing and saying are shown to be inseparable. When exhaustion is considered as the inexhaustible possibility of meaning, rather than as the negativity of the end, it shows the value of the work as undecidability. Exhaustion is thus an effective concept aiming at characterizing this invention of a minor mode of saying
Montini, Chiara. ""La bataille du soliloque" : genèse de la poétique bilingue de Samuel Beckett (1929-1947)." Paris 8, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA08A002.
Full textThis study concerns the genesis of Beckett's bilingualism from his first works in English to Mercier and Camier, the first novel in French. Beckett's bilingualism evolved gradually and became part of his poetics. I analyse Mercier and Camier in its double version, and then compare it to an Italian translation in order to illustrate Beckett's method of treating his mother tongue and a foreign language, which is so vital to the trilogy's innovative poetics. The comparison to the translation in another language stresses the differences between the two originals, and shows how they are both complementary and interactive. Thanks to his bilingualism, Beckett succeeded in melding fiction and commentary with a polyphony of voices, which recount and comment on what they are recounting - much the same as Beckett both wrote and watched himself writing. This distance allowed him to be "judge and party, witness and advocate, and he, attentive, indifferent, who sits and notes. "
Mohammadi, Aghdash Mohammad. "Approche stylistique de la polyphonie énonciative dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0046/document.
Full textThe enunciative polyphony, topic for thought of our PhD research, mentions the plurality of voices in the Speech-Only statements of the speaker/subject's speaking, if we consider the theory of linguistic polyphony by Oswald Ducrot (1980 et 1984), which was inspired by linguistic thoughts of Mikhail Bakhtin (1929/1970). This one talked about this notion for the very first time, but in a purely literary approach which he called dialogic. In this way, theory of polyphony excludes by itself the presence of a single body responsible for self-expression and extends this function to other discursive beings, which are hidden behind the only I of the speaker. The notion of enunciative polyphony in the dramatic dialogue is the area of our current research. It is estimated that even if one speaks in the first person, one can suggest in own speaking the speech (voice or the content of point of view) of someone else. That would be also interesting to see how the voices confront each other in the dramatic work of Samuel Beckett and how they let you hear the signs of other voices. Considering that the polyphony theory is now the subject of a much more linguistic approach, we can notice that much of the polyphony of the beckettian text is born out of the abundant use of the negation not (ne ... pas), of pragmatic connectors (but, perhaps, since, then) and reported speech-DR which is the fundamental junction of points of view
Scherer, Telma. "Exercícios do tempo : Dias felizes e Esperando Godot, de Samuel Beckett; O marinheiro, de Fernando Pessoa." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/3859.
Full textÔno, Manako. "La voix, le corps et le silence dans l'oeuvre de Beckett." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082452.
Full textThis thesis aims to distinguish the different aspects of corporeality in Samuel Beckett's work. In the first part, I look into the way the characters and narrators occupy space in a world endowed with its own distinctive nature. The second part focuses on the representation of the body in Beckett's work. I analyse the way questioning the body opens up the field of enquiry into the problems of identity and, by extension, of the sexual identity of the characters. This analysis led me to examine some of the techniques from which the different textual levels emerge. The issue of genre distinction in Beckett's work. Is also treated. My third part provides an analysis of the various events brought about by the dialectics of language and silence. This first consists in an examination of the characters' failure to communicate. I then discuss how the voices are both created and jeopardised by this very process. The final analysis deals with death and repetition, two notions which permeate Beckett's entire œuvre
Jeon, Seung-Hwa. "L'inexplicable chez Samuel Beckett : Dieux du chaos et monstres inconcevables." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC127/document.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to show how clichés collapse and exists the inexplicable that Beckett notices as a condition of existence that coexists with other conditions, light and darkness ; and as chaos, composed by art destroying prejudices and clichés, and seen by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This demonstration therefore proposes, on the one hand, to examine the fall of the gods of creation, sources of truth, wisdom and progress, and their denaturation into gods of chaos, and on the other hand, the elements abnormal writing, likely to be named monsters, because of their strangeness and ambiguity that prevent them from being defined. As for the gods of chaos, it will be the parody of the Christian God, Jesus Christ and Prometheus the inventor, and their degradation by which the creator will no longer be distinguished from his creature. As for the inconceivable monsters, the conditions of the monsters and the negative reactions towards them, which paradoxically imply the monstrualization, will be revealed by the theme of flowers, and the two mythical images, androgynous and Siamese, will reveal the impossibility of the identification or the significance, and the state of the interstage or confusion
Perez, Stéphanie. "Samuel Beckett, l'oeuvre de l'échec ou l'insoutenable d'une naissance impossible." Chambery, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007CHAML047.
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