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Touré, N'Diabou Séga. "Fonctionnement et fonctions des représentations du surnaturel dans l'imaginaire des contes wolofs." Paris, INALCO, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003INAL0004.
Full textThe study of supernatural characters in a given set of Wolof fairy tales enable us to appreciate the richness and diversity of such supernatural representations like the Wild Beast Mother, the jinn and the ogress that appear in West African fairy tales. But some supernatural characters, example the Mother Bush and the Head that kills, are specific to the wolof background. However, beyond the identification, the proper use of such supernatural representations raises some questions related to two main problems. First their functioning inside a well-organized universe in which their apparent chaos is but faked. The second problem deals with their functions in the tales. By "function", we mean not only their roles in the fairy tales but also their "finality". This notion of finality requires a deeper analysis in order to lead to hypothesis bringing a particular conception of the supernatural universe in fairy tales. In fact, in such problematic wholly built on the fundamental notion of change, the theme of initiation place an essential role. The supernatural universe in fairy tales is a primordial factor in the elaboration of a Wolof model for the creation of a mental person that presents itself like a social being realized into the concepts of twinage and alter. This item or model is the mould in which the future initiated will find the guide lines allowing him to be in conformity with the Wolof ideal notion of the Human Being
Costes, Anne. "La métamorphose : fonctions et investissements sémantiques au sein de cent et un contes européens et africains." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20041.
Full textThis thesis aims at discovering the different narrative and structural functions and the semantic investment of metamorphosis in one hundred one European and African fairy tales. Through a semiotic analysis, our approach lies on the hypothesis according which the tale is resonating with different levels. In the same way as numerous tale motifs, the metamorphosis forms a metapsychological configuration linked to anthropological preoccupations. Moreover, it illustrates reminiscences of ethnological practices linked to passage rites, initiation rites, and funeral cults. It also recalls totemic beliefs. Besides these ethnological considerations, it lies on rhetorical and linguistic processes which contribute to enhance positively or negatively the metamorphosed subject according to other subjects. It permits to incarnate fear as well as fascination men or women or any changing person may suggest to others. This study is composed of three parts. In the first chapter, we define our approach of the fairy tales and our methodology. The second chapter consists in a presentation of the nine groups of tales in which the metamorphosis appears. We expound the thematic and narrative composition, the representational content, the mythological inspiration of the tales which are concerned so as to make appear the semantic and structural role metamorphosis acts at last, in the third chapter, we present the different types of metamorphosis, its different semantic and narrative functions as well as the reinvestment of ethnological material and the rhetorical processes linked to anthropological preoccupations
Amilien, Virginie. "Les créatures surnaturelles dans les contes norvégiens." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040290.
Full textThe supernatural creatures of the Norwegian folktales have always fascinated people, though we do not really know their own nature. We intend to study these characters by analyzing a major selection of Norwegian tales of magic. First we will try to collect information from these texts, and to propose a classification and a description of the supernatural creatures. In this way it will be possible to show the appearances and the differences; we will take them out of the context they usually belong to, and bring out the special features. These supernatural creatures come from folk believes, from mythology and old religions, and have been influenced by the transformation of the society, mostly through Christianity and the way the nation make use of the folklore. Second, we will then try to show these cultural and social evolution, which bring us from primeval time to present time. Through human imagination, nature, religion and folk believes, rituals and history, we can observe a fundamental relation to the other world, with the conception of dead spirits and with the notion of destiny. We find even the same symbolism on the textual level, through the supernatural creatures' roles. The troll was emphasized during the national romantic period, and really detached itself from the other ones. It became at the same time a national symbol, representative of social and moral values, and a real concept, that shows the importance of supernatural creatures in Norwegian folktales
Ahmadou, Abdou Ali. "De la didactique à la littérature : l'enfance dans les contes français et africains de sources orales." Perpignan, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PERP1217.
Full textThe representation of childhood is a major theme in Litterature. The atypical images of the child found in the Greek-Roman civilization and in Religious texts appear in forms that are profane and entertaining through storytelling, a uiversal litterary genre which has nurtured hunanity's children from the mists of time. My research aims at analysing the didactic function along with the aesthetic aspect of this litterary genre. Then, using a comparative method, analyse the various representations of the child in French and African tales. Tales are inseparable from the cultural context in which they are told, thus conveying messages through symbolic codes underlying the imagination of a particular social group. This socio-anthropological approach to storytelling is carried out concurrently with a litterary approach based on stylistics and theories common to tales. My aim is to analyse the poetry in tales with a view to revealing the charm of these ageless narratives
Da, Cunha Paola. "Il était une fois la paternité dans les contes populaires : façons d'être père dans un corpus luso-poitevin-charentais-cendéen." Poitiers, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004POIT5021.
Full textAlvarez-Estrada, Georgina. "L'imaginaire de la pierre dans les contes et légendes bretons et galiciens." Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39009.
Full textThis study about the images of stones appearing in numerous tales and legends from brittany (france) and calice (spain) proves to be an archetypological contribution. From that point of view, a hundred "texts" are analysed in which stones don't only embody the similarities and the close links between two peoples apparently distant as far as their histories and cultures are concerned. Through ages, stones also keep alive the memory of the balance between dream and reality, violence and order, which is essential for individual and social human life. Then images of stones appear as stables, "written" words, which dynamise the human being inciting him to try and get the harmony, the highest wisdom they materialise. Stones are images of the totality and of the beconing springing up again and again. Man takes part in it by an individual experience of intimate and deep thinking. Each contact of the man with the stones can be a renewing instant. During the everlasting quest to unify his being, first of all man must assume the several forms of otherness represented by the images of stones, and then overcome them. To wonder, to spot, to fight against challenges and learn how to accept the idea of inperfection and instalibity in the aim og conquering the perfect balance between his double reality : that is also the tendency of the post-modern man. Works of writers such as le clezio or c. Fuentes give us several examples which show the actuality of the stones images
Granger, Sabrina. "L'imaginaire du sacré dans les contes de Marcel Schwob." Grenoble 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006GRE39048.
Full textA severe cultural crisis shakes European spiritual foundations in the late nineteenth century. Essential symbolic structures seem to crumble and society undergoes a process of secularization. Yet during the same period, a deeply-felt religious sensitivity manifests itself in various ways ; not only the main themes of the Catholic revival, but also occultism, satanism and esoteric doctrines inspire many French authors. The very notion of the sacred is in crisis and this paradoxical situation results from a widespread intellectual and artistic longing for a new way of interpreting the world. Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) occupies a peculiar position in literary history, and his ambiguity, so often emphasized by critics, makes him an emblematic figure of this constrastridden epoch. Indeed Schwob as a storyteller likes to draw figures and motifs from a universal cultural repertoire. But he is also a scholar, a disciple of Saussure and Bréal, and is very interested in the works of significant folkorists. A constant dialogue between myth and modernity underlies his entire work. How does a notion like the sacred appear in this author's writings ? The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that these two mental processes, the mythic and the modern, which seem a priori to exclude one another, are reconciled by Schwob, in such a way as to create a very personal conception of the sacred. Based on a clearly interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of literary theory, anthropology and ethnology, this dissertation analyzes Schwobian fictional space and time, then the author's own myth of language and finally his representation of the body
Ndouna, Paul. "L'homme et la société dans les contes et dans la littérature congolaise d'expression française." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040066.
Full textThe present study entitled «man and society in the tales and Congolese literature written in French" is built on the basic of thematic work. This subject has been chosen to show the evolution of a society and the expression of its soul though literary work. We noticed two existing features of the Congolese soul; the instinct of domination of central government and the reference to revolt by the people to establish social development. Symbolical characters of youth and of the woman, the pair lion hare show pertinently the cultural basis of the Congolese soul
Ventresque, Françoise. "L'amour dans les albums de littérature de jeunesse contemporaine (choix d’éditions)." Toulouse 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOU20026.
Full textChildren's literature, although considered for a long time as sub-literature, has, during recent decades, become emblematic of literature of quality. Picture books, which integrate both pictures and text to make sense, are one of its distinctive features. Within this production, we have chosen the theme of Love. This theme is seen as more innovative probably because it is linked to the evolutions of society. In this context, we have based our research on a selection of thirty or so contemporary picture books representative of all the productions from 1980 to 2009. In order to identify the main features of these productions, we have used a cross- analysis reviewing the various stages of love. All these analyses show, even demonstrate, the specificities and qualities reached in this literary genre, as well as the range of the themes approached. Indeed, we have observed that the combined talents of some authors and illustrators stand out in many ways on the levels of imagination as well as originality and humour, to such a degree that certain picture books can arouse the interest of grown-ups and children alike. This talent also shows in the way the themes are adapted, taking into account the constraints and regulations linked to the supposed age of the readers. Thus, it is interesting to note that almost all the themes of literature related to love are approached and that many sources of inspiration re-appear with them, whether it is tales, legends or ancient myths
Chiu, Chia-Ping. ""Un singulier mariage" : le cycle du fiancé animal dans les versions orales chinoises et françaises de deux grands contes de tradition orale (ATU 425, ATU 433)." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070065.
Full textThe tales "Beauty and Beast" and "The snake-prince" broadly circulated both in Europe and Asia take up the topic of the "animal fiancé cycle" which constitutes the main subject of this research. On one hand, the object of our research aims to study the theme of the "animal fiancé" through variant forms in the cultures of countries as different as France and China and on the other hand, to analyses the underlying symbolic structure. The protagonists, all single, seek the congenial soul in their initiatory quest. However, the common dream of a "fine marriage" is not only influenced but also imposed by the social institutions and traditions of each culture. This fantasy emerges as a personal desire but also as a bounder duty set by a community. How can we account for the condition of the hero who strives to become fully human or the heroine's plight? She proves curious, courageous, sympathetic, but doomed to endure a sting of hardships and punishments before becoming a "true wife". The hero and heroine face separate duties, functions and obstacles to overcome in their progress to initiation. Each achieves self-fulfilment in matrimony which entails destiny as well as social status. This study tries to understand more clearly this beautiful narrative belonging to oral tradition record, show its multiple forms, its transmission in time and space, and bring out its symbolic and sociological content
Bouton, Laurence. "Les deux frères, les avatars d'un conte dans le cinéma américain des années 50." Paris 7, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA070074.
Full textBrotherly rivalry (a common theme in tales) represents a good plot in many American films. To examine the genesis and expression of brotherly rivalry in the cinema, we concentrate our research on literature, religion, myths and American civilization. The study of the mythical origins of these two characters, of the religious symbolism they are associated with, and their evolution within literature helps us to understand the issues which are at stake when two opposing brothers are mentioned. Several films use the wealth of the brotherly rivalry in order to illustrate historical, cultural and social conflicts. Four characteristical films of this particular approach to the seventh art confirm this resurgence of ancestral archetypes in a contemporary context: “Duel in the sun” by King Vidor, “Sabrina” by Billy Wilder, “East of Eden” by Elia Kazan, “Home from the hill” by Vincente Minnelli
Nerci, Najate. "Le mythe d'Oumanir : production, réception et imaginaire : une lecture palimpsestueuse." Bordeaux 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BOR30052.
Full textHemmou Ounamir is an Amazigh Myth, from the oral tradition. The diversity of the versions of the myth which are still in circulation today, the researches and studies to which it was subjected and the multiple transpositions it has witnessed proved its permanent vitality and usefulness and inform us more about the large scope of its dissemination and richness. In addition, this myth continues to exert a lasting spell on people and is nowadays still appreciated for its sacredness by a great number of taletellers. The myth of Hammou Ounamir consists of the sumtotal of those versions which we are supposed to detect in our survey of all the old publications and among those to be collected from the taletellers themselves. Its mythical dimension emanates not only from its production and reproduction, but also stems from its reception and interpretation. Our journey through / and exploration of the multiple types / layers of the hypertexts of the myth reveals the genesis of a whole prolific imaginary where is reflected the personae/image of the mythical hero proliferated and multiplied through a gallery/ a forest of mirrors. A palimpsest reading of the transition of the myth from the verbal/the oral to the written, then to literature and the arts, from the production to the reception, is the major preoccupation/concern/axis of this thesis. In fact, the acts of writing and reading of the plot of Hemmou Ounamir end up being an integral part of the workings of the myth itself and the very articulation of its imaginary powers - that perforce add to its polysemy and openness. The myth goes beyond being a mere cameo - an object that offers itself for reading and interpretation, it becomes; however, a tool of analysis of the subject as well as of the collective consciousness. This transformation of the myth is going to revitalise it within a new and fecund chain of meanings through which is both reflected the urgent and the vital preoccupations of the society and are answered questions related to ethics, ontology and identity
Mirande, Sylvie Corinne. "Les contes populaires de la grande-lande (f. Arnaudin) : realites regionales et conte populaire." Toulouse 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOU20083.
Full textA mirror, product and vector of a community consciouness, the oral culture of ancienne lande has been immortalized by an outstanding ethnographer : felix arnaudin. Under the influence of a vision and a literary style, the mythical era touches the chronological past and the customary fact, thus underlying the rich diversity og genres and the unity of an anthology in which the supernaturel, esoterism and history are closely interwoven. The study of the interactions between the narrative and the context reveals two essential characteristics of the tales : the integration and the power of social control. These two movements are illustrated, among other things, by the local assimilation of a national literary heritage ("bibliotheque bleue de troyes"). Through this constant struggle for self-assertion, the oral tradition and the protection of a social system of ancien regime appear to be consubstantial. The analysis of the "holographic" and "homeostatic" constituants of the narrative (both concepts being borrowed from cybernetics) then mainly centres on the mirror effects and the evolution process of a very controlled. . . Frenzy
Yakouben, Mélaz. "La féminité et l'imaginaire dans les contes merveilleux berbères de Kabylie." Grenoble 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998GRE39038.
Full textMignon, Lydie. "Le père dans la littérature de jeunesse, étude de 100 romans, contes et nouvelles parus en France en 1980P." Tours, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988TOUR2009.
Full textAl though a lot has been written about the "death of the family" and the "death of the father" in our contemporary society, it seems that the family roles are rather being re-defined and that the father is more likely to keep his place. Any survey on the father necessarily implies an evaluation of the exact part he plays. The analysis of one hundred novels, tales and short stories published in France in 1980, and the systematic record of the signs of the presence and absence of the father-character in the story and of the father-actant or -marker in the narration entail us to conclude that the father is far from dying out in youth literature
Papachristophorou, Marilena. "Sommeils et veilles dans le conte merveilleux grec." Paris, EHESS, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997EHESA028.
Full textBrehier, Ludivine. "La superstition dans les contes fantastiques français du dix-neuvième siècle." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030031/document.
Full textThis study is dedicated to the potential superstitious part inherent to French fantastic tales of the XIXth century. Within this concise form of storytelling, we outline the impact arising from the collision of fantastic and superstition, two enemies of reason, witness of a time when imagination was in search of a new breath in literature. We return to the origins of the reunion of these two notions by considering their respective etymologies and evolutions, before focusing on their narrative similarities. The second part of our analysis revolves around the precursors, initiators and romantic authors, from J. Cazotte to P. Mérimée. Our third part is dedicated to major works of the second half of the century, which, at the instigation of the particularly famous E.A. Poe and other few realistic authors considered as less influent, benefit from a new form of imagination ending with J. Lorrain’s Decadent movement. This study shows the existence, necessity and evolution of the belief, in a genre dependent on a verve particularly receptive to the disillusion caused by a despised reality. We observe that fantastic and superstition both stand at the point where the ordinary meets an alternative hereafter which is paradoxically source of anxiety and salvation, reflecting the sensibility of the fantastic authors who transcribed it into an increasingly macabre imagination throughout the century, supported by traditional folklore, then by psychiatric pathologies
Clément-Royer, Myriam. "Contes d'arbres, d'herbes et d'épée : approches du végétal dans le roman arthurien des XIIe et XIIIe siècles." Rennes 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008REN20004.
Full textThe use in the legend of King Arthur of particuliar trees and herbs reflect a deliberat estetik choice, and shows a volonty of diegetic insertion which creates, from litterary's traditions and reality's suggestions, some typicals developpements. The fiction makes necessary a dynamic of fight at the tree which keeps links with the history ofmedieval acts ofwar and diplomacy. The identification ofthe "chivalry tree" is not left toéhance. The eviction of the oak tree and the selection of the pille tree narrative refers to a ï6manesc distribution of the tree's names. The arthurian's herbs are essentially mecine herbs. The gestures of the practitioner will be different whether the design is used to cure injuries, as an antidote or for para-pharmaceutical reasons. But the realism is limited to this specialisation of the gesture. Because the storyteller remains indifferent, except for the spices case, to the suggestions of time nomenclatures. The tale cultives principally the generic term erbes. The integration of the plant's life is also the subject of these works. The thematic of the gaste, which opens new horizons to all the Grail romances broadens the problematic of the "reverdie" beyond the suggestions of the topos of the seasonal revival inherited from the lyrical. The Queste deI Saint Graal goes back the threads of the story of the vegetative multiplication. With Gauvain and Galaad, the genealogical imagination adds itself to the question of the becoming of the saps
Parra, Frédéric. "Origines et limites de l'être humain dans les contes d'Armonía Somers : genèses et apocalypses de soliflore." Tours, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOUR2023.
Full textThe search for origins underlies all the fiction of the short stories of Armonía Somers : everything seems organized in such a way as to set up those limits which draw the human element down to the zero degree of evolution. The purpose of this thesis is first to study the distribution of the characters in space by using a mythico-carceral approach combining sociology (Michel Foucault), the history of religion (Mircea Eliade) and anthropology (Mary Douglas). The techniques of anamorphosis, together with the alienation effects characteristic of the esthetics of the grotesque, reveal the anatomy and nature of the artificial creatures inhabiting the various anthropo-illogical circles of fiction. Finally we make use of alchemy to arrive at an esoteric interpretation of the stories in which the mini-apocalypses or single-flower apocalypses are synonymous with transmutation, genesis and a return to origins
Lorenz, Catherine. "Les contes de Maupassant ou les morceaux du "je"." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040269.
Full textMaupassant doesn't believe in the harmonious cohesion of the whole. Therefore, in his tales, he tries to describe the explosion of each composed structure, and, first of all, the shattering of the individual identity into a multitude of autonomous fragments. In the tales, the dividing up of the human being applies to the external aspect (the body) as well as to the inner self (thought). Deprived of control over his organism by an obscure force that dominates him, the human being watches, powerless, as his corporal machine races out of control. He can no longer master his movements. Torn between his consciousness that remains clear and his acts that seem no longer to belong to him, the individual observes the mechanization and the reification of his body. The "human thing" is a simple puppet emptied of all its substance, or vulgar goods intended to be sold or bought on the market of a new economic slave system. As for the inner division of the individual, it expresses itself mainly in dual personalities. But the Horla, is not the only illustration of the double. Maupassant uses the unit of the couple to represent this unbearable dichotomy. Faced with the animal bestiality, confronted with feminine otherness, with his likeness to his child, his father or brother, in front of the foreign image reflected in the mirror, the individual, divided into two incompatible egos, questions his identity. The duality of the person leads to an irreversible deprivation of the ego. The only way out lies in death, whether it be exteriorized in a criminal act, interiorized by retreat into madness, actualized by a suicidal act, or represented by images of disappearance. The pessimist vision of the author concerning this fragmented being destined to be destroyed appears in a number of stories. It illustrates the singularity of a world pervaded by the fragments of an inner fantastic unique to Maupassant
Grapin, Alexandra. "L' expression du sentiment amoureux dans les contes de fées et dans les comédies de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle en France." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030039.
Full textLoving feeling takes an intellectual dimension and becomes object of questionings for our authors of fairy tales and comedies. Their purpose is to reveal the complex reality of feelings and thoughts of their characters. The love in itself does not cease being questioned in our stories and in our plays: is it inevitably enthralled ? Is it exclusively introduced as magical, unaccountable data ? Does it always rest on the same foundations ? Can he take a more intellectualized turn, or even sometimes rational? The authors try to pick up the essence of love, and all the more so its love-hate character. They also question on his permanence. United by a reflexive approach of feeling, the storytellers and the dramatists offer new means to express zones of the heart remained until then unexplained. They use each of approaches, perspectives, ways to characterize the figures and feelings which are distinct. They have on one hand tales of actions in the fairy tale, and on the other hand word turned to the outside in the theatre. Our authors represent this instant when feeling is born and transforms completely the individual. This one confides across the first stir of love, and even if he is still not aware of it. And it is all stake of studied writings there : show figures who refuse of at first to acknowledge and to formulate feeling
Fdida, Jean-Jacques. "La femme dans l'initiation des garçons, à travers La Fille du Diable (T. 313) et d'autres contes de la tradition orale française." Paris 7, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA070091.
Full textThis study refers to the question which is undoubtedly the driving force of boys from birth until death, and in particular the hero on the initiatory road of the wonderful tale : how does one become a man ? the position of woman appears fundamental in this apprenticeship, an goes well beyond the notion of role (the mother or the spouse's for instance), as the hero's perception of the world is largely influenced by her. The content of the wonderful tales handed down from the french oral tradition is based on type 313, the devil's daughter (t. 313), which forms the central axis of this research. Various lientious tales are equally used to counterpoint this index. Analysis privileges three apprenticeship vectors : food, ornaments and the relation to space (gestures and movement). This is a multidisciplinary approach : ethnology, the story, psychoanalysis and language are the main tools - ethnology however being the most harmonious way of highlighting the spoken word
Jasmin, Nadine. "Mots et merveilles. Les contes de fees de madame d'aulnoy." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040255.
Full textCourtot-Thibault, Valérie. "Représentation de l'espace domestique d'après les contes et les romans populaires illustrés chinois des dynasties Ming et Qing (XVIe-XIXe siècles) : étude analytique de l'image chinoise." Paris, EHESS, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992EHES0317.
Full textThe numerous engravings which illustrate chinese romantics stories 36from the fifteenth century of the nineteenth century give a data bank for the iconographic and the material civilization studies. The close relationship between the engraving and the texte increase the documentary value of the illustration. After distinguishing the stylistic conventions from the technical contraints, the illustrations transmit a model of an ideal society reflecting the aesthetic and the moral principles of the traditionnal confucianism thought
Demarchi, Barel Ana Beatriz. "Le roman romantique bresilien de la deuxieme moitie du xixeme siecle et les contes populaires : dialogues avec la france." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030161.
Full textPalmers, Anaïs, and Anaïs Palmers. ""L'émancipation par le conte : voies de l'imaginaire et enjeux du réel" suivi de "Conter la matière"." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/34939.
Full textCe mémoire de recherche-création s’articule autour de trois concepts : le conte, l’émancipation et la matière. À travers notre étude, nous nous interrogeons afin de savoir en quoi des références au réel intégrées à l’univers merveilleux du conte contribuent à modifier notre perception de la matière. Notre recherche est guidée par une curiosité du monde tangible, en particulier les matières qui nous entourent, et par un désir d’appréhender les enjeux qui se posent entre le réel et le merveilleux dans le texte. Nous avons, dans le volet théorique, observé comment le réel et l’imaginaire pouvaient se nourrir l’un l’autre et ainsi amener celui qui reçoit le texte à être mieux informé au sujet de la matière ainsi qu’à transformer sa vision de celle-ci. Nous avons également constaté quelques limites d’un discours sur le réel dans le merveilleux. Nous nous sommes demandé en quoi trop de références au réel pouvaient entraver le plaisir de se faire conter et nous avons pour cela réfléchi à l’effet de distanciation de Brecht, procédé que nous avons fini par appliquer à notre pratique. Dans la partie création, nous avions pour objectif de développer une écriture de la matière à travers le conte. Le volet création de ce mémoire prend donc la forme d’un recueil en quatre sections, une par matière (nous abordons la terre, l’eau, la roche et le bois). Nous avons aussi élaboré un laboratoire de création, où le texte a pu rencontrer la matière physique. La description ainsi que les images du laboratoire se situent dans les annexes.
This research-creation thesis hinges on three concepts : contes (a French term, sometimes translated as « storytelling » or « folktales », for which there is no exact equivalent in English), emancipation, and matter. It explores how references to reality, which are integrated into the marvellous world of contes, change our perception of matter. The research is guided by my curiosity about the tangible world, especially my surroundings, and a desire to understand the issues that arise between the real and the marvellous in texts. In the theoretical component, I explore how reality and fiction can feed off of one another, providing receivers of a text with more information about matter and transforming their understanding of it. I also identify certain limits to the use of reality discourse in the marvellous, by examining whether too many references to the real can actually hinder the audience’s enjoyment of being told a story. This led me to Brecht’s estrangement effect, which I came to apply in my practice. In the creative component, I strive to develop a method for writing about matter through contes. It takes the form of a four-part collection based on four types of matter : earth, water, rock, and wood. I also develop a creative laboratory, which functions as a crossroads where the text and physical matter intersect. A description and images of the laboratory are included in the appendices.
This research-creation thesis hinges on three concepts : contes (a French term, sometimes translated as « storytelling » or « folktales », for which there is no exact equivalent in English), emancipation, and matter. It explores how references to reality, which are integrated into the marvellous world of contes, change our perception of matter. The research is guided by my curiosity about the tangible world, especially my surroundings, and a desire to understand the issues that arise between the real and the marvellous in texts. In the theoretical component, I explore how reality and fiction can feed off of one another, providing receivers of a text with more information about matter and transforming their understanding of it. I also identify certain limits to the use of reality discourse in the marvellous, by examining whether too many references to the real can actually hinder the audience’s enjoyment of being told a story. This led me to Brecht’s estrangement effect, which I came to apply in my practice. In the creative component, I strive to develop a method for writing about matter through contes. It takes the form of a four-part collection based on four types of matter : earth, water, rock, and wood. I also develop a creative laboratory, which functions as a crossroads where the text and physical matter intersect. A description and images of the laboratory are included in the appendices.
Sclippa, Jean-Claude. "L'évolution du sens esthétique et l'interrogation sur le beau dans les Avant-gardes de 1905 à 1935." Brest, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BRES1005.
Full textThe evolution of the aesthetic sense is a movement that has been engendered by a constant succession of innovations from 1905 to 1935. From cubism to surrealism, literary or poetical creations and productions have been observed, appreciated, contemplated and submitted to critical activity, revealing new techniques, news ways or devices, a new sensibility, which not only move away from classical aesthetics but actually break away from it. Common traits, new theories, a modernity which keeps being outdated, connect the avant-garde movements and are outlined in the uninterrupted sequence of three decades. Three main stages (1905-1914,1915-1924, 1925-1935) are defined which testity to this ineluctable evolution within the sphere of the avant-garde movements, the latest taking over the innovations of its predecessors, so that the base of the new aesthetics cannot exist but in a factual order, in an actual organic development. The aesthetic intention of each poet or writer is confirmed by the singularity of the work which fits into the continuous evolution of the avant-garde movements and stands out in a typology of the xxth century's aesthetics. Beauty reveals itself in surprising shapes since the aesthetic jugement is no longer based on taste but fully takes up the field of cognitive appreciation
Desfontaine, Muriel. "Aspects de la personnification de la Mort en Bretagne dans les arts et la littérature à travers les siècles." Rennes 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003REN20042.
Full textThis thesis is a study of different aspects of the personnification of death in Brittany (l'Ankou). It looks into the the characters of the celtic religion and of the Arthurian literature that could represent its ancestors. It also shows the influence that the theme of the gruesome within the Occident during the end of the Middle Age had on written culture in East Brittany, the area of contact and exchange that influenced the representations of death in Brittany. Death gets personnified in religious works : in missionary paintings, on cult statues and in canticles. It is also found within literature in breton language, as early as the time of middle-breton. Futhermore, it is found in breton popular drama, as well as in popular tales (third and fourth parts). Each literature style has cared personality of its own out the character. Death has as many features as there are works that feature it
Nessler, Marie-Chantal. "Le Märchen de Goethe : étude d'histoire littéraire et approche figurative." Bordeaux 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BOR30033.
Full textTHIS WORK COMPOSED OF A TRANSLATION OF GOETHE'S MARCHEN (1795) DEALS IN AFIRST PART WITH A SUMMARY OF THE CRITIQUE AS WELL AS A STUDY OF THE EXEGESIS; WE SHALL GATHER THE THEMES AND THE CHRONOLOGY. FIRSTLY WE SHALL EXAMINE THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS WITH A HISRORICAL, POLITICAL, NATIONALISTIC CHARACTER. IN CHAPTER TWO, WE SHALL SEE THE STUDIES INSPIRED BY DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS (KANT, SCHILLER); ANTHROPOSOPHICAL (STEINER); PSYCHOANALYTICAL (JUNG, FREUD). THEN WE SHALL DERIVE ANOTHER WAYOF READINNG: THE MARCHEN CONSIDERED AS THE FRUIT OF THE POETICAL IMAGINATION, A MOSAIC OF A MULTIPLEE REMINISCENCES (THE BIBLE, THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGGHTS, FAIRY TALES). THEN AGAIN THE ALCHEMIC IS ALSO STUDIED THROUGH THE EXEGESIS THAT COLLECTS THE SYMBOLICS OF NUMBERS, CHARACTERS, COLOURS AND SO ON AND DRAWS A PARALLEL WITh OTHER WORKS. (THE MAGIC FLUTE, THE CHEMICAL MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ). LASTLY SEVERAL WRITERS EXAMINE THE INITIATORY ASPECTS OF THE STORY. THE SECOND PART, A FIGURATIVE APPROACH, IS A PERSONAL ATTEMPT OF ELUCIDATITION: WHILE ADMITTING A STEREOPHONIC, EXOTERIC READING OF THE TALE, THIS ANALYSIS PREFERS THE ESOTERIC WAY OF READING AND CHOOSES TO EXAMINE THE FOUR ASPECTS ALL LINKED CLOSELY TOGETHER. FIRST THE STORY IS ANALYSED CAREFULLY; CHARACTERS, TOPOGRAPHY, CHRONOLOGY). THE SECOND CHAPTER IST DEVOTET TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NATURE AND IS CONNECTED TO SCIENTIFIC WORKS BY GOETHE. THE THEME OF METAMORPHOSIS IN THE NATURE BRINGS ABOUT THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY IN THE MARCHEN, IN GOETHE'S WORKS AND IN THE HERMETIC TRADITION. IN FACT THIS SEARCH OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL STONE IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE ADEPT : THE TALE IS THEREFORE STUDIED AS AN INITIATORY MYSTERY. THE LAST CHAPTER DEALING WITH THE THEME OF TIME, OF THE NEW ERA EXAMINES THE NOTION OF FAVORABLE MOMENT, OF PROPICIOUS CONSTELLATION WHICH CAN BEE FOUND IN NATURAL MAGIC, ALCHEMY, FREEMASONRY AND IN THE INSERTION OF THE TEMPLE IN THE COSMOS
Czarniak-Duflot, Marianne. "L’Éros du souvenir d’enfance dans les contes de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, étude psychologique et éditoriale." Rennes 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008REN20037.
Full textWhereas the interest shown for Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s poetry is well known, her children’s stories have still failed to be appreciated. They have never, until the present work, been studied in a thesis. Throughout her life - from her tormented childhood to her adult life – the authoress has been confronted to the omnipotence of death. From these bereavements, from her grief, she has drawn strength and a vital energy out of common way. She started writing, and turned her sorrow into stories in verse or in prose. This work will follow the route between the ermergence of the authoress’s ideas and their outcome : the book in the hands of its reader. In each of its four parts, several tales in verse or in prose will be studied. Knowing more about the contents of these writing is the aim of these studies, while trying to understand how and in wich way the authoress transforms the chaos of her life, of her memories, into harmonious tales : The Eros of childhood memories in the tales of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, a psychological and editorial study
Ben, Sdira Khaled. "L'art de la modération chez Marmontel : le conflit et ses modes de conjuration dans les "Mémoires" et les "Contes moraux"." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006CLF20007.
Full textLyazidi-Errachdi, Souâd. "Les contes des "Mille et une nuits" : étude comparative des traductions d'Antoine Galland et du Docteur Mardrus : narratologie, stylistique, thématique." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30036.
Full textA comparative study of the thousand nights and one night in three ways : - comparaison of arabic sources for the two translators. - degree fidelity between translations and their arabic sources. - convergence, and or divergence between the two french translations of the thousand nights and one night
Ohashi, Eri. "Analyse des Manuscrits des Trois contes : la transcendance des hommes, des lieux et des choses chez Flaubert." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00790321.
Full textMattei, Silvia. "Voltaire e i viaggi della ragione." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100040.
Full textThe thesis focuses on the figure of travel in Voltaire’s works and means determine notion and dimension of travel, finding the different ways it translate and express philosophical discourse of the author. Processes are thematic and chronologic at the same time: from Lettres philosophiques (1733) to Le Philosophe ignorant (1767), across the Romans et contes philosophiques (1739 – 1774), the research analyses five variants of Voltaire’s travels : 1) Travel to England; 2) Cosmic travels; 3) Philosophical travels; 4) Cultural travels; 5) Travel trough the history of philosophical thought
Le, Guern-Camara Gaëlle. "La tentation de la fuite : itinéraires féminins à travers quelques grands contes de tradition orale." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC225.
Full textWondertales display a sequence of events whose ending systematically seems to be a foregone conclusion: the commonly admitted idea is that the outcome of their heroes’ story should only be of the type “they were happy and had many children”. Such tales are thus regarded as quaintly old-fashioned and retrograde particularly where female characters are concerned: how then could an image of contemporary women ever be found in traditional patterns whose nature is so obviously stereotyped? Our hypothesis is that this analysis rests upon a wrong perception which bestows more significance on the manner the adventures of heroines end up than on the succession of strong images which are met with all along the narration and make the story much more subversive. Far from sitting quietly by the fire and performing domestic chores which in traditional societiesordinarily devolve on women, a number of female characters in the tales take to the road in order to flee from the kingdom of their father as well as from the safety it is wrongly supposed to provide. The resultis a period of erratic wandering either in a forest or any other place emblematic of a plunge into another world, this being a phase of initiation in which the characters learn to know themselves, are in harmony with nature and go beyond the limits set up on them by society. Such stages are particularly obvious in three tale-types: Peau d’Asne (tale-type AT 510B), The Dance-out Shoes (tale-type AT 306), The Search of the lost husband (tale-type AT 425). True, with the ending there generally comes about re-socialization, which is made possible through a wedding. But the heroines’ transgression all along the narration throws a different light on that. By comparing versions from different countries and periods and setting them along side those of other media (legends, films, novels), one becomes aware of the complexity of the vision of women to befound in wonder tales and and the extent to which it is likely to appeal to the contemporary world
Brossillon, Celine. "Le célibataire dans les contes et nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant : généalogie de la solitude moderne." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030202.
Full textMy dissertation proposes to analyze the crisis of male identity at the end of the nineteenth-century in France through a close study of Guy de Maupassant's bachelors, and show a link between libertinage, solitude and folly. I try to show how this crisis, this "mâlitude", is expressed and molded through contact (or lack of) with women. I argue that the bachelor who does not want and/or cannot become a "man", in the nineteenth-century sense of the term i.e. a husband and a father, is condemned to see in women a source of fascination and terror, leaving him unable to form any human connection. Faced with his lonely self and the vacuum of his life, he remains an eternal adolescent torn between his fantasies and his anguish. The bachelor evolves from cultivated loneliness to stifling isolation. After fleeing women and their castrating force, he tries to imagine an ideal woman who would fill the void in his life, but these ghosts will feed (on) his madness and will lead him to an asylum or death itself, after he realized that evil did not lay in the heart of women after all, but was lurking in his own core
Garrait-Bourrier, Anne. "Edgar Allan Poe et la modernité du conte : texte et sujet." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CLF20010.
Full textBrière-Haquet, Alice. "Il était une fois la ville : les réécritures des contes de Perrault dans l’espace urbain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040194.
Full textOnce upon a time there were rewritten fairy tales, a very dynamic product in today’s publishing world. Updated fairy tales are the most common type: many Little Red Riding Hoods or Pusses in Boots are now walking through cities, meeting wolves who drive cars or ogres running industrial empires. Though parodies may be amusing, fun is not their only function. Intercrossing the urban imaginary with the fairy-tale means putting two referential universes face to face, each one gauging the other: traditional plots, inherited from classic tales, are twisted and corrected to fit new ideologies, and meanwhile the wonderland judges reality, with its concrete, its traffic, and its capitalist logic, so that in the end, it is the city which is reborn of the fairy tale experience. But the phenomenon should be replaced within the history of the genre. Thanks to recent academic studies, we can re-contextualize the emergence of the fairy tale in the European literary stage, and we have to note that updating fairy tales is not a contemporary practice, but could indeed be a generic characteristic. Perrault, already, by the scenography of the old maid telling tales to young kids, offered his urban public falsely naive stories, inviting them to look above the illusion of fiction, in order to find the “Morale trés-sensée”, the very wise moral. Therefore, because of their intrinsically polyphonic nature, fairy tales exist less within a logic of transmission than within a logic of conversation between generations, and for that they should be considered myths of modernity
Enriquez, Romain. "L’invention littéraire de l’inconscient dans le récit de fiction (contes, nouvelles, romans) entre 1850 et 1895." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040069.
Full textUnlike a set of studies which tack psychoanalytical concepts onto pre-texts, i.e .texts transformed into material for analysis, we study the specific contribution of fiction (novels, tales, short stories, narrative forms…) to the invention of the concept of unconscious. In the second half of the 19th century, the unconscious makes a crucial appearance behind the mask of words (“depth”, “automatic”, “without knowledge”, “obsession”…), topics (dreams, hypnosis, hysteria…), characters (facing personality, behavior or memory disorders…) and narrative voices. Literary history has always gathered writers in “literary movements” embodied in “manifestos”; yet this categorisation collapses under the pressure of this notion or intuition, more difficult to grasp as it proves to be protean. All of them wonder about the depths of artistic creation, the unintended language of the body, the duality or little reality of “ego”; all of them throw a stone without knowing the monument at which they are aiming. From Flaubert to Zola and Huysmans, Barbey d’Aurevilly, Goncourt, Bourget, Maupassant, Dujardin – just to name a few –, we investigate how fiction dialogues with various knowledges (psychophysiology, medicine, philosophy, biology…) and, along with science, how fiction may develop its symbolic arsenal, its hermeneutic register and becomes an epistemological player in its own right. Again, we investigate how literature, in opposition to the speeches skillful with scientific neutrality, operates freely, but not free of ambiguities. Indeed, it involves with reader in the writing of an unconscious not so much described but rather constructed, not so much discovered but rather invented
Martinez, Louis-Antony. "La voix, le regard et le style dans les Trois contes de Gustave Flaubert ainsi que dans les Tales of unrest de Joseph Conrad." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO20020/document.
Full textThis doctoral thesis has not aimed at establishing “the” meaning of the text. On the contrary, it has sought to conceive the plurality of the text through Lacan’s concept of objet petit a (object small a). The latter can be grasped only through its effects. As part-objects, voice, gaze, and style are metonymic figurations of objet petit a.Admittedly, it is patently obvious that the object a has constituted the logical framework of our literary analyses, but these analyses have been anything but pure ones. Of course, we have frequently referred to psychoanalytic concepts, however, we have often permitted ourselves to orient our investigation towards other approaches (philosophical, generic, ideological, structural, rhythmical, stylistic etc.).The study of two collection of tales by two different authors – Trois Contes by Gustave Flaubert and Joseph Conrad’s Tales of Unrest – has been the occasion to bring to light the existence of two forces: on the one hand, the force which concerns speech, eye, and style as the object of the desire of the writer as a craftsman, and, on the other, the force which pertains to voice, gaze, and style as a signifying production (signifiance), i.e. as “radical work (which leaves nothing intact) through which the subject explores how language works him and undoes him as soon as he stops observing it and enters it”
Drouin-Grondin, Stéphanie. "De l'usage subversif du conte à une herméneutique de l'espace dans Le conte de l'île inconnue de José Saramago." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25760.
Full textPearson, Simon. "Entre expression de l'aliénation et écriture de la libération : réappropriation féministe du conte de fées dans Les fous de Bassan d'Anne Hébert et Les Sangs d'Audrée Wilhelmy." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/70272.
Full textGrall, Catherine. "Enjeux de la brièveté dans quelques récits contemporains : nouvelles de Thomas Bernhard, de Jorge Luis Borges et de Raymond Carver." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030005.
Full textMas, Jean-Paul. "L'oeuvre de Philippe de Vigneulles : du vécu au récit (journal, chronique, tomes III et IV, recueil de nouvelles)." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20018.
Full textOur study proposes first a thematic then a structural reading of cent nouvelles nouvelles by philippe de vigneulles (1471-1528), a metz droper. His work, the product of the oral middle-class culture of the early 16th century, may be understood in the light of his "historical" works: on autobiographical narrative (journal) and a chronicle of metz. After having analysed the particular features of each of the narratives (which concord in their approach to reality) and resolved the problems of method raised during their reading (chapter 1), the events chronicled in metz were re-examined in the light of the author's view of his own society (chapter 2). The analysis of themes and motifs in the narratives shows that their author adopts the values present in his historical works, but using the comic mode. He contests neither the social hierarchy nor the socio-economic and political systems of his day. He does however imagine a nonaggressive society freed from any supernatural manifestation: the dream of the merchant class on its quest for material wealth and new worlds to conquer. Chapter 4 studies the formal aspects of nouvelles nouvelles in two phases: an exploration of the semantic field "nouvelle" in philippe's historical work (354 occurences) leads to the identification of a set structure, the embryonic, archetypal structure of the literary narratives. Two functions, termed "conjonctural analysis of a situation" and "choice of on immediate riposte", appearing systematically and often high-lighted by various stylistic effects, confer a didactic import on the work; philippe's stories are a series of case studies, profane "exempla", lessons in social sciences. Despite their still medieval flavour, they express their author's belief in man, at a cultural level as yet unaffected by the humanist enlightement
Hamed, Mohamed Habib. "Le conte oriental et son traitement dans la littérature française jusqu'à la révolution : contribution à l'histoire des mentalités." Paris 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA080436.
Full textIn this study, we felt it necessary to go back to the oral, universal and linguistic origins of the french revolution; these origins are at level of speech both as an endogenus and exogenus sign. The tale is still at the origin of linguistic exchange between the generations both dead and alive; it denunciates social situations and regulates tensions. The tale also acts on reality always translating it according to the satisfaction of a need. The revolution is the best example of this process
Darnis, Pierre. "Lecture et initiation dans le récit bref cervantin." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00116592.
Full textLes Nouvelles exemplaires (Novelas ejemplares) leur répondent par la reprise de scénarios tirés des contes de fées et des mythes tragiques (2e).
L'exemplarité se définit par la poétique sous-jacente à ces deux modèles : celle de l'initiation (3e). La thèse dégage deux axes d'éducation : l'initiation à l'humanité et l'éducation sentimentale. Cervantès propose d'abord quelques normes d'une « chevalerie » modernisée: placé au cœur de la cité, le héros exemplaire est l'instrument d'une véritable « civilisation des mœurs ». Sur la question sentimentale, le conte merveilleux se révèle fort pertinent: sa trame permet de conduire nos protagonistes vers l'heureux mariage en les contraignant à adopter une posture volontariste.
Shahbaz, Pegah. "Les récits persans en prose en Inde : exemple : Touti-Nâme." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC030.
Full textThe present research aims to introduce a collection of Persian traditional narratives, either translated from Indian sources, or written and composed directly into Persian language in the sub-continent. Our focus has been on prose narratives which hold multiple specificities borrowed from Indian tradition and culture, and are enriched by fabulous and imaginary narrative elements. Such specificities appear in diverse aspects : the frame structure of the stories, the leading themes and the typical Indian characters. These stories are presented in detail by providing information about their authors / translators, date and place of composition, themes, original sources, available manuscripts and other references.The current research is also an endeavor to practice and develop symbolic perception in classical stories. Touti-Nâme, chosen as our target text, demonstrates social life, conjugal relationships and power-struggle in both individual and social contexts. The dominant themes of women’s guiles and tricks, love and law conflict, dream and laughter have been examined through mythical and symbolic approaches. Women characters and birds such as parrots have gone through profound studies due to their predominant roles within the tales. I have also tried to study psychological aspects of story characters and their role in the events by means of the Jungian psychoanalytical approach. Concrete examples of gender authority and power-games in traditional patriarchal societies have been given in Touti-Nâme
Mehrbrey, Sophia. "Figures d'enfance : la représentation de l'enfant dans la littérature française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMR024.
Full textPhilippe Ariès’ work, L’Enfant et la vie familiale sous l’Ancien Régime, founded the child as an object of interdisciplinary interest. However, a systematic study of the theme in 17th and 18th century French literature has not up until now been realised, although it appears to be during this period that the perception of the child evolves to a considerable extent. The literature of these two centuries not only shows this evolution, it also plays a major role within the elaboration of a new conception of the idea of childhood, which prefigures in many points the rousseauist renewal. Basing our study on an interdisciplinary corpus of critical works, we endeavour to study the representation of childcharacters within a prose corpus, their function of within the narration and their implication in the social and philosophical debates of the times. Our first chapter focuses on the child as an object of the adult reality. Adopting a sociology of knowledge perspective, we have defined “the child” as an object of social reality and subject to the adult discourse. The objective of this first chapter is to analyse the way the child appears in the writings of our corpus as an object of representation, sculptured according to adult discourse. However, the child as a character in classical French literature cannot be reduced to this status of objectivation. In all the texts in which a childcharacter occupies more than a passing role, the author shows his interest in the child’s personal, and most of all, social, development. For that reason, the second chapter analyses the child’s dynamism, because in 17th and 18th century, the child is considered fascinating due to his fleeting identity. Finally, the third and last chapter focusses on the child as a subject in a sociological meaning, as an individual provided with a certain degree of subjectivity. From the 17th century onwards, but mainly within the first part of the 18th century, some authors also start to think about the origins of the human species, man’s intellectual faculties and the points that enable us to differentiate between human beings and other species – questions that can’t be answered, or even asked, without taking the child as a central question
Lee, Yi-Pei. "La poétique du "bizarre" et de "la surprise" dans la prose d'imagination de Guillaume Apollinaire." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA040/document.
Full textGuillaume Apollinaire is undoubtedly one of the most famous French poets of the twentieth century. However, apart from being a key figure in the early avant-garde movements and the author of The Mirabeau Bridge (“Le Pont Mirabeau“) and The Song of the Ill-Beloved (“La Chanson du Mal-Aimé“), the poet played another literary role less known to the public today. In fact, the “imaginative prose” (“la prose d’imagination“)—short stories and novels—of Apollinaire was written in the spirit of “l’esprit nouveau“ and in accordance with a poetics of “surprise“ which also shaped his poetry. Being an avid reader of curiosa and other unusual texts, the prosateur Apollinaire had a predilection for heretics, rogues, maniacs, ungraceful poets and eccentric artists. He was not afraid to write about shocking or unconventional subjects while aiming for aesthetic renewal. This very distinctive fiction writing belongs probably to a certain tradition in literature, where Apollinaire and some of his works remain among the genres and the authors who devoted themselves to fantastic tales, mysteries, anticlerical stories or other subversive texts. Since worldly experience and literary enterprise are inseparable in Apollinaire’s world, it is natural to notice many signs of the writer’s curiosity and his taste for the bizarre in his private library, his journals and his magazine columns. In fact, a large number of the so-called “true falsities“ (“authentiques faussetés“)—a term invented by Apollinaire himself who, as a brilliant raconteur, excelled in mixing reality with fantasy—can actually be found in the writer’s journalistic writing. As for his work of fiction, a similar tendency for mixing also reveals itself in the fusion of different artistic and literary genres. The “imaginative prose“ shows the author’s will to invent out of some existing “frameworks“, to create a new aesthetic free of genre constraints, while remaining faithful to the principles defended by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire