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Tsuchiya-Matalon, Makiko. "L' Extrême-Orient imaginaire de Paul Claudel." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10129.
Full textYoshida, Mio. "Paul Claudel et le monde des missionnaires : rencontres, activité, écriture." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL002.
Full textFrequent in the life and work of Paul Claudel, the missionary figure is emblematic of the universal vision of the world conceived by the Catholic poet, who aims to integrate the earth’s immense plurality into his professional life as much as it is in his work. The first part is devoted to the discovery of the Catholic Missions by the young consul during his stay in China, a discovery that allowed him to position himself in front of the world as both a diplomat and a poet. The second part highlights that Missions are also active in Europe, especially in a particular period of the Great War. His diplomatic and literary activities are superimposed on his dualistic view which, contrary to what Catholics and Protestants think, does not seem incompatible with his desire for peace in Europe. The period in Japan, analyzed in the last part, appears particularly fruitful, as evidenced by the consequent magnitude of his diplomatic work and the favorable reception of his literary work. Composed of three main periods that are also distinguished by geographical references, this study includes other countries where he has exercised diplomatic functions such as Brazil and the United States thus emphasizing his global vision throughout his professional career. The purpose of the study is also to shed light on the multifaceted dimension of his three-fold missionary world, including meetings with many religious figures, diplomatic activities aimed at unifying countries, and writings based on the intuition of a unification of the world
Yu, Jiangyue. "Du sensible au spirituel : l'expérience de l'Extrême-Orient dans les œuvres poétiques de Paul Claudel." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL052.
Full textThis thesis presents the experience of the Far East that Claudel lived and wrote in his poetic works during three successive periods: the Chinese period (1895-1909), the Japanese period (1921-1927), and the post-Japaneseperiod (1927-1955). As a "Catholic poet", Claudel pays more attention than other French traveler-writers to allkinds of spiritual forms manifested in the Chinese or Japanese universe. However, his search for the spiritual is not limited to a pure metaphysical reflection, but is always superimposed on a "physical" perception, mobilized when he walks in the real or artistic world of the Far East. The "body" plays an important role and presents itself as a privileged way of knowing, allowing Claudel to enter into a world hither to unknown to him. Given the rich dimensions of the "body" that make up Claudel's "sensible experience" in the Far East, we divide our thesis into two parts, according to two main aspects (landscape and writing) which demonstrate par excellence the close but very complex relationship between the body and the spirit, between the sensible and the spiritual in this explorer of Asia. In the first part focused on his experience of the landscape, our attention is not onlygiven to the real framework, to the multiple excursions that Claudel completes in the natural regions of the two countries, but also to the literary and artistic framework, in order to reveal the inspirations that the oriental representation of landscape brings to its invention of new poetic forms. In the second part, centered on his experience of writing, we study respectively his perception of the Chinese ideogram, his practice of oriental calligraphy and his adaptation of short Chinese and Japanese poems. From a cross-cultural and comparative perspective, we try to point out some Chinese and Japanese references that also closely associate the sensible experience to the understanding of the spiritual, in order to reveal to what extent Claudel diverges from or is inspired by these sources from the Other, and how the latter lead him to enrich his poetic expression and to accomplish his religious vocation in a literary creation absolutely original
Brun, Christelle. "Paul Claudel et le monde germanique." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040282.
Full textTurk, Boštjan Marko. "Paul Claudel et l'actualité de l'être : l’inspiration thomiste dans l'œuvre poétique de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040275.
Full textPronovost, Annie. "Claudel et le Japon : une autre écriture, suivi de, Minuscules." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21252.
Full textThe second part of this master's thesis is a collection of short stories which show, at various extents, the same characteristics of oriental writing as observed within Claudel's literary works.
Daniel, Yvan. "Paul Claudel et l'Empire du milieu." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040133.
Full textPaul Claudel lived in China from 1895 to 1909. This stay gave birth to a literary work, a “Chinese period”. My study offers a review of the exoticism of Claudel’s literary characteristics compared with contemporary writers as Pierre Loti, Claude Farrere and Victor Segalen. I will then focus on the author's Chinese studies, dealing with such various topics as the antiquity of the middle empire or more contemporary sides of the Chinese history of his period which were linked with his diplomatic position. Finally, the approach and the influence of the Chinese philosophies, as well as the tensions that arose when they were confronted with christianism, highlights the ambiguous and mesmerizing effect that the Chinese spirituality had on Claudel’s work and life as it becomes clear after the reading of Gilbert Keith Chesterton in 1908
Kadota, Machiko. "Paul Claudel dans l'univers des idéogrammes chinois." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040025.
Full textOur thesis examines how P. Claudel obtained his personal view of the far east by coming in contact with its culture founded on the spirit of Chinese ideograms. In fact in china he was attracted by the aspects of Chinese idepgrams which were very different from those of the European form of characters. From the beginning of his career in china, he was interested in the simple phrases of the Daodejing of Laozi: Claudel was especially enchanted by Laozi's idea of the "non-existence" which appeared to Claudel akin to the notion of "vide" of Mallarmé. The culture at the Far East has no western logic. But is quite intuitional. The calligraphies and the landscape paintings enjoy the contrast between black and white, corresponding to the "existence" and "non-existence" in the vertical space. The Japanese culture characterizing around the period of 12th century was affected by the culture developed in the southern part of china; it being flexible and free influenced by Zen (chan) of southern song. In japan this kind of culture originated the tea ceremony, the no, the haiku etc. Claudel was able to approach these traditional arts quite deeply because of his general "connaissance" of the Far East. It appears however that he could not profoundly understand Zen itself since he was too Christian
Perez, Claude-Pierre. "Connaissance de l'Est : le défini et l'inépuisable (une étude littéraire)." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040069.
Full textThis thesis is about the aesthetics of connaissance de l'est, a collection of prose poems by p. Claudel. When speaking about this book, claudel has adopted a very rationalistic point of view, which he owes (he said) to aquinus. Our thesis tries, in its first part, tomake obvious the diversity of the collection, and the contradictions of a poet similar to the twisted tree of his poems. In a second part, we investigate the factors of unity, namely "the intelligence and the will" which cooperate to produce the famous question he asks to everything : "what does that mean?" nevertheless, this question must not make us consider these poems as mere parables; on the contrary, claudel has been drawn by mallarme and the orientals towards the aesthetics of allusion, on the path of the unspeakable
Tidjani, Alou Antoinette. "Le premier théâtre claudélien : naissance du drame et drame de la naissance." Bordeaux 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991BOR30033.
Full textThe present study is motivated by the desire, shared by other researchers and certain specialists, to understand, in order to emphasize, the specific nature of the dramatic work, in comparison to other literary texts. This generel interest has guided our study of claudel's early theatre. While not ignoring the importance of biographic elements to the evolution of the work, we found it necessary to insert the same in the moral and aesthetic context of the late 19th c which brought it into being. This period of national and individual crisis of identity finds its echo in the symbolist aesthetic, which has left an indelible mark on claudel's dramatic works. But these works are also worthy of detailed and indepth analyses, undertaken without prejudice or critical preconceptions ; in order to reveal the sustained effort of composition, furnished by a young dramatist in his learning of a demanding art and in his first steps towards the affirmation of a unique dramatic style. In claudel's case, this "apprenticeship" was much advantaged by the recomposition and auto-criticism of his plays. It is therefore impossible to ignore the significant role of the same. Finally, the theatrical work distinguishes itself by its relationship to the stage, he it future or potential. It is therefore interesting and indeed necessary to take the potential dramatic scene into consideration in a critical study of the theatre text - in this case claudelian, symbolist and mystical
D'Angelo, Paola. "Lyrique japonaise de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040242.
Full textThis thesis examines, using a comparative approch, paul claudel's poetic output of japanese influence. A chronological method has been chosen, in order to show the successive stages in claudel's poetic evolution, both in his personal reflection and in his relationship with the far east. From the specular discourse of poemes au verso de sainte genevieve to the typographical attempt of le vieillard sur le mont omi, the development of claudelian poetics in japan takes the path of a search for poetic absoluteness to the fan-poems, coming from the idea of creative breath ('souffle'), connected with the art of painting. We will then consider cent phrases pour eventails, true accomplishment of claudelian poetic work in japan in its visualartistic aspect in connection with the art of calligraphy, on the one hand, and with japanese haiku poetry tradition on the other. After a short examination of his later traslating work, this study will end with conclusions which once again take up the idea of the development of a 'total' poetry, and which suggest a privileged relationship of poetical work with slence
Fix, Florence. "Paul Claudel - wagnérien malgré lui ?" Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040302.
Full textThis study attempt to recount the relation of paul claudel to richard wagner. As a young man, he admired him, without really knowing his work : the composer was a legend for the french symbolism. Claudel could only be at concerts, until his diplomatic career took him away from paris to the united states and to china. He felt howewer very close to tristan and especially to amfortas, because of his own experience of love. Back to europe, he could at last see operas in vienna and in prag. He was not a musician, but as a dramatist he was interested in having music in his dramas. He tried to associate these two arts by working with darius milhaud and arthur honneger. It is not his catholic faith which divide him from wagner : as a dramatist, he could see the weaknesses of the wagnerian operas. At last two world-wars move him into an anti-wagnerian and he claimed to prefer the french composer hector berlioz
Macé-Barbier, Nathalie. ""Le théâtre et son ombre" : mise(s) en scène d'un art poétique dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040119.
Full textPaul claudel's theater is like a vast laboratory for the discovery and experimentation of peotic principles. The first part of this dissertation studies the numerous dramatic figures of poets ; speeches on art and spectacles that stage various states of creation are dealt with in the second part. The third part, more synthetc, shows that the poem refers to every production, literary, artistic, natural, that implies an inspiration and an expiration (or an expression) ; the dramatic spectacle, with its own features, is specially fitted to demonstrate the function of the poet discovering and recomposing the world in order to offer it to god as a sing of gratitude. Finally, in the fourth part, we provethat ideas of drama, poetry and religion, are intrinsecally connected in claudel's poetic universe and that such a link totally overthrows accepted opinions on literary genres and their distinction
Serbanescu, Sorina. "Univers mythique et symboles fondamentaux dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel et de Lucian Blaga : Traité d'herméneutique, étude comparative des sources culturelles, des structures et des moyens symboliques." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040161.
Full textThe compared hermeneutics of symbols in their theatre is due to their elective affinity (diplomatic career, approach of different literary genres, expressionist interest towards symbols and towards the elaboration of philosophic-religious systems) intends to highlight the permanence and the modernity of their theatre, the cultural aspects underlining the unity of the European spirituality. Are presented the hermeneutic instruments and techniques, their philosophies, the Romanian philosophy, the expressionist tendencies in the European theatre. The archetype of the hero puts on scene the Promethean myth (connected to the Dionysian cult, the cult of Jesus, The Nietzschean revolt), the myth of Creation. The Christian sources are in : the theme of poetic creation, the diluvian myth, the biblical parables. The characters are in search of Grail, conveyed by the symbol of spiritually-light, and exchange the earth with the sky. Are studied the parable of Animus and Anima, the myth of Tristan-Isolde synthesizing the love; the myth-history; the symbolic value of names, numbers, stage directions; the reception of the authors in Romania
Martinot-Lagarde, Sever. "La bouffonnerie dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040135.
Full textOften wrongfully considered as quite austere, the theatre of Paul Claudel is in fact filled with such dreadful jokes and such preposterous scenes that the only word fit to describe them is slapstick. Far from merely providing comic relief, these jokes play a key part in Claudel's vision of the world as well as in his poetics and dramaturgy. The more absurd a scene appears, the more it seems to hide the inner sense of the play. We will therefore analyse the different forms Claudel's comic has assumed and then study its influence on the conception of characters, its signification and the various functions it fulfils within the play, and in particular its lyric and mystic dimensions. This paper will first try to establish a critical definition of buffoonery before exploring Claudel's own conception of this notion through both the analysis of his sources and his reflections on laughter. Because Claudel's work spreads over seventy years and owing to the numerous metamorphoses comic has undergone throughout that period, a diachronic approach has been adopted. The second part of this paper will therefore analyse the first half of Claudel's theatre, where comic offers the characteristic of the grotesque. The third part deals with the plays, from Protée to the final Prologue to Protée via The Satin slipper, which follow the aesthetic of buffoonery. As Claudel's clowneries are to be taken seriously, let us remember the warning made by the Annoncier in The Satin slipper: " Do not cough, and try to understand a little. What you will not understand is the most beautiful. What you will find the longest is the most interesting, and what you will not consider amusing is the most funny. "
Ghosn, Catherine. "L'influence du no sur l'ecriture et la mise en scene de paul claudel." Toulouse 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOU20115.
Full textHow did no influence claudel's writing and stagings, after 1922 (when he attended for the 1st time the no do-jo-ji)? 2 methods can help us. First of all, j. Duvignaud's one (sociology of theatre) that connects dramatic art with social practise. And after, a. Ubersfeld's one (semiotic of theatre) because it finds out the structure of the play for no and claudel's ones. Claudel's plays are compared with no plays to find out in which measure no has interfered with them
Jullien, Claudia. "Paul Claudel intérroge le "Cantique des Cantiques" : Édition critique (Introduction, Variantes et Notes)." Besançon, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993BESA1010.
Full textYu, Zhongxian. "La Chine dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040175.
Full textThe theater of Paul Claudel is much influenced by the Chinese civilization. This influence seems to be se evident that we can see it in almost all the aspects of his theater: borrowing of subjects and themes, imitation of theatrical production, transformation of the Taoist doctrine, memory of his stay in china. . . The present study will analyze this influence in details. Le Soulier de satin, Le repos du septieme jour and Partage de midi are the claudelian dramas which are most influenced by traditional china. His favorite themes, such as sovereign's sacrifice, going down to hell, departure to the west, prisoners in jail, separated lovers, shoe-testimony, all have their sources in china. In Taoism, Claudel finds the possibility to express his theological ideas. In Chinese theater, especially in Peking opera, Claudel looks for the technique of theatrical production. He imitates the oriental drama arts in his own creation in order to conduct a reform
Fleury, Raphaèle. "Influences du spectacle populaire sur le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 2008. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=rfyMS01.
Full textPaul Claudel claims to be "the only author of a truly popular theatre, meant for all souls, and accessible to all hearts", when several of his contemporaries are sharing the dream of a "popular theatre", and theorizing it. At the same time, his theatre increasingly resorts to practices borrowed from popular show, as the historical avant-garde movements do. Both facts may surprise, his work being considered as serious and difficult of approach in the largest audience. Through researches on Claudel's contacts with popular shows and an analysis of the uses he makes of them in his plays, it appears that not only does the playwright apply himself to symbolically reinvesting these forms, but that he also perceives and uses their effectiveness so as to serve the success of his work, which is "rousing mankind from its gloomy indolence" by awakening its conscience of two coexisting worlds : one material, one spiritual. Using popular practices, the claudelian theatre shows the audience that their presence in the theatre is taken into account, that the diversity of their possible interpretations of the drama is acknowledged, and so his plays develop more and more precisely and consciously with the passing years, in order to affect it. This game of address and materials, for which Claudel shows in turns the pleasure of innocence, the jubilation of provocation and the disgust for "tricks" and "juggling", extends beyond the issues of aesthetics. The pragmatics of Claudel's popular scheme, a witness of the catholic author's trust in the ability of the matter to convey meaning, implements an efficiency that may also be a risk and whose reception must be interrogated
Alagoz, Ilhan. "Édition critique de « Sous le signe du dragon » de Paul Claudel." Besançon, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BESA1002.
Full textThis thesis is a study of Paul Claudel's « Sous le signe du dragon ». It analyzes the reflexions of the author concerning china of the end of the XIXth and early XXth centuries, the period otherwise known as the end of the "empire du milieu". This book is important because it clarifies the relationships between China and foreign countries during and age in which colonisation and the imperialist intrigues of european and japanese powers were at their peak. The subjects which we analyzed are in various stages of research. These subjects are : the career of Claudel, the themes of his book, the manuscripts and the variants and annotations of the text. In this analytical work, Claudel presents his beliefs about the effects of western influences on the economic, political and spitual levels of chinese society. This study contains an analysis of two manuscripts of the « Sous le signe du dragon ». In our study, we hope to contribute to the body of knowledge concerning the period of the book's composition, as well as the ideas contained in the book itself. We are of course indebted to Claudel's previous work « Livre sur la Chine » for contributing to our understanding of « Sous le signe du dragon ». We hope that our supplementary explanation of the annotations will facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of Claudel's work. We also hope that our analysis of the variants will prove useful for future researchers who seek a better understanding of this work
Gakutani, Ryo. "Claudel poète-ambassadeur : les regards de Paul Claudel sur le Japon (1921-1927)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL158.
Full textIn this paper, Paul Claudel’s (1868–1955) views on Japan are examined. During his embassy stay in Japan from 1921 to 1927, he matured as a diplomat as well as a writer. In the first part of this paper, Claudel's diplomatic files are analyzed. As a diplomat, he set sail to observe the contemporary world from a strategic perspective in order to broadly contribute to the French–Japanese rapprochement. For the establishment of a permanent system of representation of French interests in the Far East, the ambassador demanded the simultaneous political, economic, and intellectual modernization from Japan and did not admit any isolation. This was in contrast with his respectful attitude toward Japan's archaic civilization. In relation to his interests in Japanese culture, Claudel revaluated the long tradition maintained in this Asian country. The religious aspects of Japan particularly affected Claudel. These aspects were deeply linked to the feelings of the Japanese people, and were represented in art and literature. In the second part of the paper, based on his diary, correspondence, and texts on Japanese culture, it is revealed how the religious and cultural traditions of Japan are interpreted by Claudel and how that inspired his literary creations
Dyrdal, Iréna. "L'évolution des idées de Paul Claudel entre deux versions de "La jeune fille Violaine"." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040137.
Full textBaconnet, de Saint-Aubert Hélène. "L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara (Paul Claudel) : pour une dramaturgie de la gloire." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040122.
Full textKaës, Emmanuelle. "Claudel et la peinture, "cette muse silencieuse et immobile. . . " : des prestiges du baroque à l'intimité spirituelle hollandaise." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040052.
Full textClaudel's criticism goes from symbolist to cubist painting. Paradoxically, 19th century painting is the object of a permanent synthesis of all aesthetic trends of the century, from symbolist inconsistency to "pompier" academism. Claudel preferences for the 20th century go to "classical" painters the public has somewhat forgotten today. XVIIth century work used by Claudel as a reference in his criticism on modern painting. In reaction to this contemporary art, Claudel has fo most of his masters in the "maitres d'autrefois". My purpose is to measure through questioning of the pictorial heritage the implication of such exploration of past works are in his present writing. Le Soulier de satin finds its place at the beginning of this study, first because it questions the pictorial heritage of the XVIIth century and also because it pre the major themes of Claudel’s art criticism, the enthusiastic reflexion on baroque Catholicism and the meditative reflex which will develop with the "introduction à la peinture hollandaise". Defined by Claudel as the isolated heir of the bar masters among sacrilegious modernists, Catalan painter, Jose-Maria Sert, has put together Claudel’s reflexion on baroque painting. Considered along two axes, a dynamic baroque - that of dramatic effect and of gestural emphasis which he paradoxically discovers in Greco, a painter he doesn't appreciate much - and a eucharistical baroque (Rubens, Titien) t concentrates on the woman's body. Only by substituting to visual appropriation of the painting an attitude of listening (l'écoute) can the observer withdraw within himself and discover the secret dwelling of anima which finds a pictorial representation in Dutch painting. Reflexion on painting not only takes its place in this meditative return but also Claudel interpretation represents it in a sort of self reflexion. The poet integrates to his criticism a perspective on his own contemplative experience (mise en abyme) in all its dimension, external - (old age, biblical meditation) - or internal painting as an allegorical representation of the "personnel of our faculties" (imagination, will, memory) or of "thought work"
Lécroart, Pascal. "Paul Claudel et la musique scénique : du Christophe Colomb au Livre de Christophe Colomb (1927-1952)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040172.
Full textPaul Claudel has always shown a great interest in music ; as a youth, he was deeply impressed by Wagner and influenced by the mallarmean circle who was dreaming of the total-art work. In 1912, as for the first time one of his plays was performed, he met Darius Milhaud, then just aged twenty; that was the beginning of a profitable collaboration marked by the outstanding work on the Orestie by Aeschylus (1913-1924) translated by Claudel, the incidental music for Protee (1913-1919) and the ballet L’homme et son désir (1917). However, it isn't before 1927 that the playwright really started to experiment on the numerous ways of mixing drama and music, which we choose to call "theatrical music". It was then a question of composing music for written dramas such as L'annonce faite à Marie, L'otage, Le père humilié, Le soulier de Satin, Sous le rempart d'Athènes, or experiment on new and more complex formulas, drawing nearer opera (le livre de Christophe Colomb) or dramatic oratorio (Jeanne d'arc au bûcher, la sagesse) or pure oratorio (la danse des morts). Thus Claudel collaborated with musicians who were as different as Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Paul Collaer and Maria Scibor. Whether they were recognized musicians or amateurs, Claudel always insisted on playing a leading part when he worked in collaboration, imaging beforehand the music he wished and expecting the composer to realize his own creation, and by doing so, he opened a unique and astonishing way. Our work, after examining the sources and influences, makes a review of the collaborations before studying the question of the connection between words and music, and face the essential problem of the bond between drama and music : the construction, the spectators' reception as well as the musical symbolics
Guillet, de la Brosse Gaëlle. "De l'instant privilégié au mouvement créateur dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040245.
Full textTime is of capital importance in the evolution of Paul Claudel's characters. These, avid for the absolute,attempt to capture the prime moment inscibed in their personal journey. .
Seo, Seok-Dol. "Le thème de la possession du monde, de la femme, dans le théâtre de Claudel : Tête d'Or, La Ville, Partage de Midi, Le Soulier de Satin." Nancy 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000NAN21005.
Full textThe subject of the research is " The theme of possession of the world, of the woman, in Claudel's theatre (Tête d'Or, La Ville, Partage de Midi, Le Soulier de Satin). What is the origin, from a christian point of view, of possession for the author himself ? We have found a relationship that exists between the personal evolution of Claudel during his lifetime and the way in which ate expressed the two components of the theme of the possession in his theatre plays : the possession of the world and the possession of the woman. In Claudel's drama, man tries to acquire without limits those things that are visible (material things, land, and the woman) but only in order to obtain finally those things that are invisible (the joy, the love and the Spirit, who are eternal). This analysis is focalized on the human desire itself, with it's double contradictory tendency of possession and of destruction ; One can see this double human desire confronted with a single metaphysical and spriritual aporia, the woman becoming, by favor of depossession, the illuminated mediator of a celestial to know himself and to express himself by using the great harmony of the world, a world shown as a profound source or privileged object of search and possession. Claudel's drama is characterized by a duality of possession and of depossession, which finds it's conclusion or resolution in the discovery of transcendence. Your possession is mine : he who's spirit was visited by certitude =, a certain 25th of December 1886 in Notre-Dame of Paris, understood one for all – even by repeating this question in his drama – where ins the principle of the only possession which can't be destroyed by anything
RICHARD, MONGEREAU FRANCOISE. "Les racines de l'oeuvre de paul claudel dans la litterature francaise du 19e siecle." Lyon 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987LYO20056.
Full textIs paul claudel a poet of modernity or heir to the great literary references of 19th century? the answer to this question will be the thread of this work, where we shall see how claudel puts in concrete form the link beetween two completely different centuries. At first, the important influence, though masked and even disowned by claudel, of ascending romantism, lead us to look for the position of the romantic hero in claudelian works so for a new conception of breath in poetic inspiration, heritage of victor hugo. Then, we'll see how a real poetry of elements sets up, and where reality is only a metaphorical support of a sacred and even divine presence. At least, we'll have to ask about the end of the 19th century and what we'll call "the symbolist flight" for claudel which makes of him the poet of modernity whom everybody knows. His work on language to its subversion is raised up by the decisive discovery of mallarme and particularly of rimbaud. The dynamics of conquest and the recurrent theme of depart are, in claudel, ferments of modernity and poetic renewal which will irrigate the 20th century. . .
Jeung, Jine-Jou. "La violence et la guerre dans les premières oeuvres dramatiques de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040099.
Full textViolence is essentially "life-force", as the origin of the word suggests. An important meaning of violence in the early dramas of claudel is that it is an energy of creative destruction. Our analysis is : there are two dimensions in claudel's employment of violence in his drama. One is that it may be a reflection of his way of life. His struggle was expressed in his dramas in the form of conflict between art and faith, flesh and soul. In a larger context, his violence can be accounted to be a reaction to the phenomena of "fin de siecle", or the will to challenge prevailing materialism, scientism and nihilism. The other dimension of violence : it may be employed as a dramaturgy technique. Violence gives a sens of tension, revealing aesthetic reality. It has the function of striking the sleeping mind of the spectator in a world of fixed ideas, making them wake up to their long-forgotten true selves. In this sens, claudel's violence as a dramaturgy technique anticipates antonin artaud, whose keen interest was in cruelty in the drama
Millet-Gérard, Dominique. "Anima et la sagesse : pour une poétique comparée de l'exégèse claudélienne." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040476.
Full textA first part deals with Claudel’s parable of animus and anima considered as a short essay in poetics, focusing on Rimbaud’s influence ; as a sort of spiritual autobiography, and as a liturgical meditation on the immaculate conception of the virgin, the figure of wisdom (sapientia) in the bible, and the generation of the word, either divine or poetical. In the second part we show Claudel’s debt towards two theologians, Pseudo-Dionysius and saint Bonaventura, whose analogical system is much akin to his own theory on metaphor. On the whole it appears that Claudel’s exegetical work is not only a comment upon the bible, but also a meditation on the essence and mission of woman, as well as the essence and generation of style - and both are metaphorically linked. So Claudel proves very close to the aesthetical and spiritual quest of the symbolist movement, whose preoccupations he turns to a roman catholic answer
Galli, Pauline. "Au défaut des langues : poésie et traduction chez Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry et Paul Claudel." Paris 8, 2012. https://eu04.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/uresolver/33USMB_INST/openurl?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&portfolio_pid=5389952600006301&Force_direct=true.
Full textThe main objective of this work will be to highlight the importance of the translation in three authors’ work: Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry and Paul Claudel. Their translation’s activity will imply a poetic which will be disclosed in this study. By renewing those translations’ approach and by no longer considering the only translation and linguistic models, their theoretical value would appear alongside with the direct link with their author’s poetic thought. The translations of this corpus reflect singular poetic choices, an accurate and complex image of which they give. Beyond their individual value, they also offer a big coherence as a whole. So the translation shows itself as a synthesis of the big poetic questions of the modernity - those of the author and the otherness in particular. This perspective also allows breaking with a linear literary history because the translation is by definition one comings and goings of the works through times. From then on, the relationship of filiation between Mallarmé, Valéry, and Claudel, can be questioned. These authors’ translation study thus allows revealing the liveliness of the works: that of originals, but also of their translations. This liveliness is aesthetic, certainly, but it possesses before a theoretical impact which overtakes the strict chronology. The chosen approach thus allows revealing the tacit poetics at work in the translation, while proposing a vaster reflection over a specific moment of the thought of the language and the poetry
Lemos, Rodrigo de Oliveira. "Cinq grandes odes de Paul Claudel : un commentaire sur la structure et sur l'expression symbolique accompagné d'une traduction." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131725.
Full textComo outras expressões da lírica cristã francesa do século XX, as Cinq Grandes Odes (1910), de Paul Claudel, foram objeto de raros estudos da crítica lusófona e permanecem pouco conhecidas no Brasil. A presente tese de doutoramento tem por intuito apresentar um comentário literário das Odes, seguido de uma tradução integral que as dê a conhecer ao público brasileiro. Esse comentário divide-se em duas partes. Na primeira parte, procede-se a uma leitura de cada ode, a bem de extrair sua arquitetura e de dar a ver o princípio de composição do conjunto do livro. Identificamo-lo na dinâmica de aproximação e de afastamento do sujeito poético com relação a Deus, presença constante ao longo dos poemas, ora evocado indiretamente, ora interlocutor a quem o poeta confia seu mundo interior. Na segunda parte, após uma exposição sobre o uso do símbolo em poesia, sobre a própria concepção de Claudel sobre o símbolo e sobre as observações de sua fortuna crítica acerca do tema, é levada a bom termo uma análise de alguns simbolismos que permeiam o texto. Merecem nossa atenção o simbolismo pírico, telúrico, aéreo, aquático, tenebroso, luminoso e urânico. Indicamos como esses simbolismos (exceção feita ao urânico) situam-se na mesma estrutura o livro, refletindo igualmente, em sua significação, os polos opostos de aproximação e de distanciamento quanto a Deus. Ilustramos, assim, o uso poético do símbolo nas Odes, sublinhando a abordagem dinâmica, anti-didática e polissêmica de que se serve Claudel. O estudo da polissemia nas odes no plano dos símbolos permite tratar igualmente do problema da polissemia na própria linguagem poética das Odes, fonte de algumas das principais dificuldades encontradas no processo de tradução do livro, tradução essa que constitui o segundo momento desta tese e que busca recriar em português o ritmo, a força retórica e o impacto das imagens do poema francês.
Beretta, Alain. "La vie scénique d'une pièce de théâtre : "L'annonce faite à Marie" de Paul Claudel (1912-1995)." Nancy 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996NAN21006.
Full textThis thesis deals with the main aspects of the evolution of the staging of the tidings brought to Mary by Paul Claudel from 1912 to 1995, from the point of view of its aesthetic aspect and reception. The first two parts throw of the author to several of its staging’s: after having hesitated for a long time before having it performed, he derives pleasure from following the play from its creation in 1912 and, later from having it performed which was audacious in Hellerau, Germany in 1913. However Claudel’s further attempts to stage the play until his death happen to be disappointing as they were nothing but projects which aborted or which brought about nothing but illusory satisfactions. The last part evokes more briefly the evolution of the staging of the tidings brought to Mary without the presence of its author. Stage-directors in France were not really attracted to this play until the 1940's, during the author's lifetime, while it was being performed almost everywhere in the world, especially in Germany. Since Claudel’s death in 1955, there has been a host of staging of the play in France, where this drama has become a popular classic, as well as abroad. As our imagination, and which, in the first place, has revealed the depth and the a conclusion we would say that this study shows how rich the staging of a play can be, a staging which, while it is inherent to the reality achieved through the scene, can appeal to originality collective of Claudel’s plays
Negishi, Tetsuro. "Paul Claudel au Japon : rencontre diplomatique et poétique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040026.
Full textThis paper addresses the literary and diplomatic works of Paul Claudel (1868-1955), a great French poet and competent diplomat, during his stay in Japan from 1921 to 1927. The first approach is to study his economic, political and cultural efforts as French Ambassador in Tokyo and the relationship between France and Japan, by consulting the ministerial directives that inform us on the task taken up by Claudel. The focus in this part is on the major activities he directed: the Governor General of Indochina’s official visit and the foundation of two French institutions in Japan. This research clarifies the characteristics of his efforts that are not only faithful to his duties but also reflect his personal political vision in the new international system after World War I. The other approach aims at his encounter with Japan. The research is conducted from three perspectives : the first is an analysis on his works concerning the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, which show us not only the different style between his literary works and the diplomatic documents, but also his approach to Japanese literature. The second is an analysis of his literary innovation that originates from his personal thesis. And the final part is on the important material sources for his poetic works: books or papers with Chinese characters, pictures or calligraphy on them. In short, we define Claudel’s process of creation which stems from his diplomatic and poetic vision based on his personal philosophy of “co-naissance”
Chu, Ge. "Les interactions de la culture occidentale et de la culture chinoise dans l'oeuvre théâtrale et poétique de Paul Claudel." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020BOR30008.
Full textFrom 1895 to 1909, Claudel had made three business trips in China and lived there for almost twelve years. As a diplomat, he visited several Chinese cities, such as Shanghai, Foochow, Haikou, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tientsin; as a playwright and poet, he also experienced the breadth and depth of exotic oriental landscapes. In the writings of Paul Claudel, the encounter with the China was two- dimensional: there is firstly a reserved and obstinate attitude, producing misunderstandings and surprises, and also an attitude that seeks inspiration in otherness. Based on the personal journey of Claudel, we can situate his works in several perspectives: cross-cultural (French culture and Chinese culture), cross-spatial (from external view to internal view of China), cross-temporal (ancient China and contemporary China) and cross-religious (Christianity,Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism). We study his theatrical and poetic works inspired by Chinese culture, we focus on analyzing the Chinese elements and we see how Claudel manages the poetic and conceptual interaction between two cultures so as to explore and appreciate the cultural implications with rich symbolic significance in these works and to highlight his efforts in the Sino-French communication. We point out that, different from the previous studies, our thesis doesn’t concern the general connection of Claudel with China, but particularly the mutual interaction between Chinese and Western cultures in his theatrical and poetic works
Menanteau, Claire. "Dialogue entre l'image d'Orient et la sensibilité dans des textes en prose de Paul Valery et de Paul Claudel." Angers, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998ANGE0018.
Full textAt the end of the 19th century and during the first decades of the following century, France went through a period of Orientalism which eluded neither Paul Valery nor Paul Claudel. Their motivations to present the Orient, during the years 1890 to 1936, were different. Valery, influenced by the sino-japanese war and maybe by his meeting with lord kelvin in london, inscribed in his prose an image that was more often underlying than manifest. Claudel's ambivalent relationship with the far east, where he was a consul, was well known. Many texts in prose diffuse his image of asia. Inscribeb in a dynamic of the meeting with the Occident, which reveals a more marked structure of the struggle in Valery's texts than in those of Claudel, our poets' image of the Orient, if it sometimes concurs with certain views common at that time, differs nonetheless. Valery's Orient is a real field of strengh ; the writer's interest in strategy and thermodynamics marks the representation in which a post-quantum vision of the world, ahead of ist time, could be seen. With Claudel, we discover a dynamic Orient, the representation of which ensues from the encounter with taoism and maybe from that with acupuncture. In fact, the image of the Orient is a topography of the reflections of each of the poets on sensitivity, the multiple facets of which are disclosed to us. Bound up with their youth, this image bears witness to a turning-point in the lives of the writers : the discovery by the one that sensitivity can be the origin of intellectual thought processes (the image of the Orient seems then to be a pre-text of the " cahiers "), and that, of the other, that it can enable man to accede to an understanding through prayer or to an act which works for unity (it is intimately linked to the dramatic works and to the diplomatic function). Beyond the conventional images, it is a real dialogue which has been established between the representation Valery and Claudel made of the Orient and their own sensitivity as men. A dialogue from which the texts sometimes borrow their form and which invites us to imagine the fusion as a complex structure of communication, thus preceding the theory of the neuropsychiatrist B. Cyrulnik
Kessous, Guila Clara. "Théâtre et sacré : analyse d'une interculturalité dramatique dans les oeuvres de Paul Claudel et d'Elie Wiesel." Thesis, Metz, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008METZ015L.
Full textThis work is a continuation of the Master's thesis named "Theatre and the sacre : Theater of the sacrifice or sacrifice of the theater in The Satin shoes by P. Claudel and the Dybbuk by P. Anski". One can find there the same concern for sacredness in the theater from a very specific angle : "the transmission of the sacred through two archetypes : the form of christian mystery and the traditional form of the purim spiel", which are the objects of a comparative analysis and which are the catalysts for dramatic intercultural spirituality in the two examined works. This study focuses thus more specifically on the actual literary content through an analysis of archetypical forms and of their dramatic expressions with E. Wiesel and P. Claudel. Without joining in an ordinary religious polemic, the aim of this study is to show what the creative madness which is about to happen in front of a public is, by analyzing aesthetic preoccupations (according to the culture of the two authors), artistic ones (the influence of the music and of the time) and, of course, pure dramatic preoccupations (analysis of the writing, of the dramaturgy, semiology,...). The numerous biblical allusions of these two works will also be considered. Does this mean that we deal with a religious theater, with divine mysteries that one has to read as acts of faith ? On the contrary, the pre-existing religion occurs here as a catalyst of the sacred, as a dynamic of tensions and is not more than an efficient ingredient for the transportation of the public (and of the author). The scenic space eliminates the divine sort of transcendence in order to set up another form of transcendence : the one of the theater in itself that is the altar on which the author is sacrified and sublimated. The questions which this work attemps to respond to are the following : how to transform the religious sacred into an artistic sacred through Performing Arts and how do two authors of different religious confessions proceed at this ? Do there exist topoi (commonplaces) of this passage from the out of scenic to the scenic when you touch the domain of the sacred (historic study of the medieval "mysteries" and parallels with the tradition of the Purim Spiel) ? If it is the case, which are symbols of it and how do they become manifest in the dramatic "material" (scenery, costumes, accessories,...) ? Finally, is there a word of the Sacred that is more appropriate to the out-of-time of theSpiritual or can the Logos be translated into a daily prose, which, by being transformed within its everyday nature, becomes poetic in the 20th century ?
Lobjoit-Chaumont, Marie-Ange. "Bertolt Brecht, Paul Claudel et la vie de Jeanne d'Arc entourée de parodie." Dijon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995DIJOL016.
Full textThis study focuses on Joan of arc, and particularly on two of her literary manifestations, Brecht’s salvationist and Claudel’s tortured maid. It does not strive to operate the symbiosis of these two contrasting writers but to uncover through their protagonist two types of work which are both different and a like at different times, and which overlap more often than is usually thought. The progression is over several chapters which range from the real to the abstract. Chapter i looks at the historical and literary context of the two plays under scruting Die Heilige Johanna der schlachthofe (1928-1932) and Jeanne au bucher (1934). Chapter 2 studies the genesis of the two dramas featuring Joan but also the differences between them, the spirit of cooperation, the critical stance and stagecraft of each playwright. Chapter 3 testifies to the complex approach that both authors use regarding the historical figure. They both make her into a figurehead allowing the marxist to work out a politicized tale and the mystic to create a spiritualized work. The saint of French patriots has been eschewed in favor of a heroin whose murky conscience reaches knowledge at the end of a progress mapped out in the last chapter. Joan's initiatory journey enhances the necessity of human sacrifice, thereby uniting Brecht’s anthropocentrism and Claudel’s theocentric vision
Alexandre, Didier. "Le gland et le chêne : genèse et formulations de la poétique de Paul Claudel." Paris 8, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA080921.
Full textClaudel composes between 1900 and 1904 his poetic art. By this work we purpose establishing the genesis, and the permanence of the poetics in the later works. The treatises on art of poetry answer a crisis, biographical, spiritual and philosophical (materialism, spiritualism, positivism): and literary (relations of science and poetry: crisis of verse). It results from a constant dialogue: Claudel collates the philosophical intertexts (materialism, spiritualism, Thomas d'Aquin, Aristotle) ant the literary ones (Poe, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Mallarme), and defines his own theory ok knowledge, his own linguistics and mystic. We analyse the principal notions of the poetics (vibration, movement, knowledge, form, fin, conscience, knowledge of soul after death). After this intellectual genesis, we study the genesis in the manuscripts and in the works of the former period: two compilations of poems (Connaissance de l'est, Vers d'exil) and the first plays (L’arbre) finally, the thesis analyses the new definitions of poetics in poetic works subsequent to poetic art, and the commentaries on the Bible. The poetics become a lyric poetry in Cinq grandes odes: we define a theory of lyric poetry, epic poetry, and drama. The poetics is also a hermeneutic method: Claudel uses notions of poetic art for defining and analysing scriptures, and defines this commentary as a lyrical poem
Huang, Guanqiao. "Rédemption et délivrance : présence du bouddhisme dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP011/document.
Full textIn Paul Claudel’s drama, the Catholic spirit and the Buddhist exoticism intersect in a very distinctive way. The Soteriology remains the central proposition, but it is never limited to traditional redemptive dogma, but enriches it with that of Buddhist deliverance which combines with the philosophy and aesthetics of India, China and Japan. This syncretism created a very singular literary atmosphere in his drama. Claudel’s acceptance and transformation of Buddhist ideas on deliverance is a long personal and cultural history. We combined the external philological studies with the intensive analysis of the texts in order to show how the dialogue between Catholic theology and Buddhism exerts influence on French literature from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. This study takes into account the characteristics of the Oriental experience of Claudel, as well as the development of his literary thought and his Buddhist source. We have extracted three stereotyped Buddhist systems: primitive Buddhism in the Indian region, which preaches suffering, emptiness and nihilism; the “degraded" Chinese Buddhism awaiting the salvation of Christ; Japanese Buddhism, with the beauty of pleasant melancholy, serves as a spiritual healing of the West in crisis. We choose three representative works: Tête d'Or, Le Repos du Septième Jour, Le Soulier de Satin. By combining external historical study with text analysis, we have re-established a three-step process, in keeping with the diachronic development of Claudel’s Buddhi-Catholic ideology
Bauer, Sabine. "Des femmes et des désirs : analyse de la visée des personnages féminins dans le théâtre de Claudel: Violaine, Sygne, Lumîr, Pensée, Prouhèze." Paris 7, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA070003.
Full textPaul Claudel's theatre has considerable surprises in store for any researcher or reader. Although Claudel has been presented by his interpreters and critiques as the expression of an orthodox Catholicism, we rather believe that in his plays is at work a 'mise en scène' of fiction that, as Lacan says, "breaks through the canvas". His female characters - Violaine ( L'Annonce faite à Marie [Mary's prophecy] and the two versions of La Jeune fille Violaine [The Maid Violaine]), Sygne, Lumîr and Pensée (from the Trilogy: L'Otage, [The Hostage] Le Pain dur, [The Dry bread] Le Père humilié [The Humiliated father]), Prouhèze (Le Soulier de satin [The Satin slipper] are animated by a desire and an absolutely diametrical opposition to any Christian "agapè". This desire, nerve of Claudel's plays, leads his female protagonists to choices that profile themselves in a horizon of destruction and death. In a close analysis of several scene excerpts, using the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, we intend to reveal how each play is build around this feminine desire, how it is its very backbone. This study is structured in three parts: - The issue of marriage in the case of Sygne and Prouhèze, as they willingly marry not "lovers" (Georges de Coûfontaine, Rodrigue) but men who pursue them violently (Turelure, Camille). Sygne's enigmatic strife which carries her to a radical destruction, and the consequences of this tragedy for the subsequent generations : the plunge in a sordid scenario, a "carnival" drama in which Lumîr, though she is the instigator of the Father's murder, remains the only character in the Le Pain dur who aspires to an ideal of love-- which leads her to death. Out of the disaster blossoms blind Pensée, who represents desire and beauty. Violaine's character, whose desire stages not only the destruction of the self -through the "joy" that incarnates leprosy- but also violence towards the other characters. The desire of Claudel's female characters is narrowly linked to the image of the Father and to its metonymy, God, whom it causes to stumble
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
Wu, Yaquin. "Les quatre éléments dans l’œuvre de Paul Claudel." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040112.
Full textThis paper examines the theorization and abstraction of the Four elements, namely, Fire, Air, Water and Earth, found in the works of Paul Claudel, who was cross-pollinated by the Oriental and Western Culture as a diplomat in China (1895-1909) and Japan (1921-1927). His academic findings and artistic development are approached by the author from multiple aspects: physical and metaphysical, moral and intellectual, religious and symbolic, poetic and imaginary. In his journey to the ultimate nature of the world, the material characteristic of the Four elements and God the Creator, the First Cause of the creation and the movement of the world, Claudel squarely and intentionally situated himself at the intersection of two Cultures as he draw great inspirations from the both. In the process of knowing and experiencing the omnipresence of God, Claudel explored the esoteric power running in the depth of his heart, using his study and imagination on the four elements to establish a network encapsulating the natural and the supernatural, the physical and metaphysical
Deshoulières, Valérie-Angélique. "La vérité métaphorique : Claudel, Musil, Cortázar : trois rêves de logiciens." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040127.
Full textThis study is primarly a "praise of difference",the concept of similarity is described from both a linguistic and religious point of vue,and evertually defined as a creative act inseparable from tensions. .
Morissette, Jean-François. "L'expression de la conscience mythique chez Paul Claudel et Gatien Lapointe." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25223/25223.pdf.
Full textDevaux, Emmanuelle. "Étude de la métaphore séminale dans les commentaires bibliques de Paul Claudel." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040090.
Full textThe symbol of the germ, and the model of the organic development, play a very important role in Paul Claudel’s poetical and dramatical works. When the poet devoted himself to the study and the poetic commentary of the Bible in the last part of his life, this metaphor becomes central. Claudel uses it particularly in questions such as the meaning of human life and its links with spiritual realities. More broadly speaking, the image expresses the energy and the power of development contained in a world that aims at its complete achievement. Through this image, Claudel celebrates the vigor he admires in nature, and, at the same time, the perfection of a divine realisation. The reading of the Bible leads him to renew his approach of these themes. We also have to consider the influence on him of other sources, especially the Fathers of the Church, great theologists as Thomas Aquinas or Saint Augustine and other spiritual books which he frequently refers to. Nevertheless, we should not forget that he exploits as well the more recent scientific discoveries and discusses contemporary issues. The image of the germ allows Claudel to stress the dynamism of the world, the spontaneity of living things and to illustrate the mystery of man; thus, it is at the heart of his poetical world
Huang, Bei. "Peintures de Segalen et Cent Phrases pour éventails de Claudel : un dialogue au travers de la peinture extrême-orientale." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040083.
Full textSegalen and Claudel respected each other's literary work. However the poets' religious beliefs were opposite. While writing Peintures in 1915, they corresponded regarding faith and, in a letter to a friend, Segalen wrote that Peintures absorbed his answer to Claudel. Segalen describes indeed his belief in aesthetic in answer to Claudel's catholic faith. Peintures clearly reflects this conception. Cent Phrases pour éventails could be considered as an answer from Claudel. Both of the works form a kind of dialogue that we may interpret according to two different levels : to see the world, and to display images of the world within the work. Concerning the last point, Segalen and Claudel are both inspired by Extreme Oriental painting. Whereas this is considered by Segalen as an imaginary world independent from reality, by Claudel it is considered as an imitation of the reality, but moulding its essence. The two opinions give birth to two poetic creations with two specific aesthetics
Laussucq, Dhiriart Graciane. "Paul Claudel et le renouveau catholique : accords et désaccords, 1886-1938." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040061.
Full textAppeared in reaction to post-revolutionary secularization, the Catholic Revival is a French movement uniting catholic artists and intellectuals, particularly active between 1885 and 1935. Rooted in intransigent Catholicism, it aims at replacing modern society with a Christian one, in which God would be given back his place in art and mind. From his conversion in 1886, until he abandoned literature for biblical exegesis during the thirties, Claudel, as a writer and intransigent Catholic, belongs to that movement. He nevertheless remains on the fringe of it, participating only occasionally for limited works to its several initiatives. He builds only uncertain or bad relations with most of the other Catholic writers. How can we understand this? Far from being Claudel’s particularity, this situation symbolizes the history of the Catholic Revival, which was simultaneously guided and controlled by anti-modernism repression. Yet the attempt of a Christian art, eager to show the presence of the supernatural in men’s world, often appears as a form of naturalism, in others words as a reduction of supernatural to human stage. Claudel reproaches the most part of the Revival members for this naturalism, even if they are involved, just as he is, in the common project of reconciliation between Catholicism and modern world
Pruvôt-N'Guyen, Séverine. "Formes et enjeux du dialogue chez Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry, André Gide et Valéry Larbaud." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040087.
Full textOur work focuses on the study of the peculiarities of the use of the dialogue in the first half of the twentieth century by Paul Claudel, Paul Valéry, André Gide and Valery Larbaud. It shows how each author took hold of the dialogue in his own specific way. It also highlights the various ways these writers used it, depending on the topics chosen and their purposes. However, from these various uses one may draw out a prevailing function of the dialogue : it fulfills the role of a mediation – between the many facets of a writer, between myself and the others, between the world and a representation which tries to have an impact on it
Yang, Li-li. "La "carnavalisation" du Soulier de satin de Paul Claudel mis en scène par Antoine Vitez : le "réalisme symbolique" du théâtre d'Antoine Vitez." Paris 8, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA080749.
Full textThis thesis analyses the spectacle of le soulier de satin, written by paul claudel, directed by antoine vitez in 1987. The whole spectacle is based on le scenic metadiscourse of theatricality vs. Transcendence through a carnivalisant process in five aspects, namely : (1) theatricalization, (2) dialogic structure of the signifiants systems, (3) inversion or transformation of the popular carnival, (4) association of the opposite in a dreamlike composition, in which the polyphony functions, (5) emphasis on the ambivalent laughter of carnival. Three scenic levels, carnivalesque, politique-religious et sexual, are distinguished and fused in the spectacle