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Van, Treeck Christian. "La réception de Michel Houellebecq dans les pays germanophones." Aix-Marseille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AIX10062.
Full textPitault-Moreau, Aurélie. "L'Oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq : une observation critique de la société." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2025.
Full textThe poetic and romantic work of Michel Houellebecq offers to the contemporary reader a perception desillusioned of its reality. Inherent social critiscim at its writings supposes an engaged attitude of the author. Its texts indeed distill theories on the apparition of evils related at the sexual liberation and the advent of liberalism. However, Michel Houellebecq does not seem to wish that the literature embraces a social function. Our work proposes to determine the degree of engagement of the author. We will confront the literary work of Houellebecq with the naturalist's theorie of Emile Zola. We will rest on the qualities that Zola waited of a novelist, i. E. To be an observer and an experimenter. The representation criticizes of the society engages the novelist towards a responsibility ; witness of its time, he's also compromised with it. But does Houellebecq assume really its role of public
Melo, Israel Victor de. "Imaginário cultural : árabes e muçulmanos em Submissão, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2018. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32256.
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Ao representar a complexidade social francesa, Michel Houellebecq caracteriza sujeitos sociais, o que pode possibilitar o conflito naquilo que concerne à relação de interação desses sujeitos numa realidade não-ficcional. A partir de seu romance Submissão (2015), analisamos as narrativas de tensão político-social entre personagens árabes e não árabes para, desse modo, revelar o imaginário circunscrito ao outro, à outra árabe, sobretudo, na tradição cultural e científica cujo fim é a dominação colonial. Para isso, nosso embasamento teórico-metodológico parte do campo da Imagologia – Marius-François Guyard (1951), Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1989, 2011), Celeste Ribeiro de Sousa (2004, 2009, 2011) – e dos estudos culturais – por meio dos pressupostos defendidos por Edward Said (1978,1993) e Homi Bhabha (1994). Assim, investigamos o modo como o Outro foi visto, imaginado e narrado na produção cultural literária.
En représentant la complexité sociale française, Michel Houellebecq caractérise des sujets sociaux, ce qui peut rendre possible le conflit en ce qui concerne la relation d'interaction de ces sujets dans une réalité non-fictive. À partir de son roman Soumission (2015), nous analysons les récits de tensions politiques-sociales entre les personnages arabes et non-arabes afin de révéler l'imaginaire circonscrit à l'autre arabe, notamment dans la tradition culturelle et scientifique dont le but est la domination coloniale. Pour cela, notre base théorique-méthodologique part du domaine de l’Imagologie – Marius-François Guyard (1951), Daniel-Henri Pageaux (1989, 2011), Celeste Ribeiro de Sousa (2004, 2009, 2011) – et des études culturelles – à l’aide des hypothèses défendues par Edward Said (1978,1993) et Homi Bhabha (1994). Ainsi, nous étudions la façon dont l'Autre a été vu, imaginé et raconté dans la production culturelle littéraire.
Lavigne, Jean-Baptiste. "Entre réaction et utopie : Michel Houellebecq ou le paradoxe postmoderne." Chambéry, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CHAML013.
Full textThe work of Michel Houellebecq seems to be emblematic of the postmodern literary movement. Indeed, they both share the principle according to which this whole world is nothing but division, paradox and nonsense. Yet, if it is true that Houellebecq's poetic sets out to describe the story of a disappearing universe, it could not be confined to that. Indeed, a whole section of the latter tries to give back hope to the reader and to promise him reconstruction opportunities beyond postmodernity : towards a "post-postmodernity" within which humanity would be reconciled with itself as well as with the outside world. That programmatic speech first establishes itself through the narration of a futuristic universe, the description of a utopian system based on positivism and genetic manipulations : a promise of liberation for a humanity chained to its own inability to improve itself. Moreover, that social reconstruction project involves the radical criticism of our corrupt world, and, at the same time, the sanctification of a number of fundamental values inherent to modernity (love, family, etc. ) and symbolic of human community spirit. However, it is poetry which seems to be remedy to contemporary evils, for the poetic work, deprived of a manichaeism and free of intellectual and rational thoughts, finds itself able to offer the reader o post-logical universe within which paradoxes, sapping the postmodern world, have been transcended. Finally, that polysemous work therefore appears absurd, or, more precisely, postmodern, only in order to describe the monist universe into which it is thrown, in order to understand it better, so that it may be fought, and, possibly, overcome
Hladki, Pawel. "Système social et fiction : l’exemple de Michel Houellebecq et de Jerzy Pilch." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131031/document.
Full textSocial body, as a large connection of interdependent organisms, takes part in elaboration of a literary work, which is the product of three main subsystems: politico-economical (responsible for the adaptation to environmental conditions), cultural (concerning the maintenance of standards and values) and social (referring to integration). This analytical scheme, loosely based on the theory of Talcott Parsons, relates specifically to stories of Pilch and Houellebecq, whose stories,together with the world depicted, reveal the characteristics of the external context in which they were designed. The first part of this paper examines the tension between the economic system and political and fictional productions by Jerzy Pilch and Michel Houellebecq. This study aims to demonstrate how the social reality and the market determine the recording of certain thematic and formal concerns presented in the works of these two authors: the description of the appearance, thepresentation of interpersonal exchanges, the functioning of discursive symbols appropriate for the economy, and concerns about work. The second part deals with the influence of socio-historical changes on the maintenance of cultural patterns and restoration of traditional values. The main objective will be to determine the extent to which the moral revolution in France and the gradual Westernization of Polish society affects the concept of the family and the love relationships. The lastpart concerns the role of religion and identity in the process of social rootedness, and presents various ways of cutting off from the society
Boulade, Sophie. "Qui ? du roman. Henry Miller, Paul Auster, Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA061.
Full textThe category of the novel of the whom? includes novels written by novelists who are not strictly contemporaries of each other, such as Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq. These novelists suggest a problematics of speech, marked by contradictory and ambiguous referential indices. They compensate the uncertainty of these indices by the stability they lend to the characters and because they want to be realistic: they write their novels clearly in their time and make their characters witnesses of this time. This duality - uncertainty of the status of the speech and realism - explains that the realistic spatial and temporal framework are linked by unstable games of enunciation and identity. This justifies the category of the “novel of the whom?” and allows Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq to read a problematic, that of speech, of the times evoked by these novels
Fustin, Ludivine. "Romanciers cyniques : Octave Mirbeau, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040011.
Full textThe antique and modern study of the novels by these three cynical writers aims at trying to portray a new authorial status in the history of nineteenth to twenty-first century literature : the status of the cynical novelist. First and foremost, the common thread of this research comes from the essential link between cynicism and truth. On the one hand, truth as historic truth is defined when cynicism (in its philosophical, psychological and ethical terms) is considered by these novelists as a novel material, in other words, a theme, a character, and an attitude, which exposes the reality of their respective century. On the other hand, truth as transhistorical truth is when they endeavour to unveil what mankind and world are. Cynicism comes therefore from the habit of truth-telling, the one that promotes the alethic aspect of the literary text and determines the content of the speech conveyed by the novel. Mirbeau, Drieu and Houellebecq novels have really definite horizons of their owns. But if I consider the common points to these three writers, I can say that this truth-telling process is a centre around which themes, narrative elements and writing processes gravitate. This strong involvement of cynicism in the literary space necessarily implies a singular connection to reality, therefore, it implies for the novelist both to handle carefully this melting of fiction and real-life experiences and to trigger a process of a honest and lucid disclosure towards literature itself. A cynical novelist must expose the weaknesses, the contradictions and even the quirks of literature in order to be as close as possible to what it really is
Oliveira, Denise Maria Hudson de. "O intelectual fracassado : uma análise dos personagens escritores em Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, e em Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2011. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/9770.
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A dissertação analisa os protagonistas – personagens escritores – dos livros Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, e de Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq. As obras são aproximadas no que diz respeito à presença da intelectualidade, da valorização do saber e da forte insatisfação dos dois personagens com o mundo em que vivem, inclusive com as relações humanas. Essas e outras condições levam os protagonistas a universos conflituosos que misturam reflexão, insatisfação, angústia, desesperança e fracasso. Os dois livros, do ponto de vista das histórias narradas, são tristes e sofridos porque não possuem perspectivas; não há horizonte para os dois personagens. Esses pontos são abordados levando-se em conta que os autores das obras utilizaram-se de certos recursos muito semelhantes para criarem suas histórias, como a questão da aparência física e de um assassinato. Profissionais do jornalismo e da engenharia de redes de informática; e também criadores de textos literários, portanto intelectuais, os dois protagonistas são desamparados pelo saber e não são poupados do sentimento de fracasso. Com o poder econômico sendo o elemento-chave em cada uma dessas obras; o homem caminhando rumo à civilização, mas cada vez mais voltando a sua origem; a inversão de valores, o extraordinário avanço da tecnologia sobrepondo-se sobre nós e nos afastando de nós mesmos e dos outros, diante ainda da ausência de um horizonte que conforte e que faça valer o nosso conhecimento adquirido ao longo da história humana, indagamos: não estará de volta, esteticamente, um novo fracassado, um novo incapacitado para viver? Eis uma hipótese. É preciso um trabalho extenso e intenso para respondê-la e prová-la. O que podemos afirmar, é que a conjuntura e o contexto mundial ocidental demonstram que para a existência de uma nova gama de personagens fracassados o “terreno” é bem propício. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This dissertation analyzes the protagonists – writers characters – from Graciliano Ramos' Angústia, and Michel Houellebecq's Extensão do domínio da luta. The works have in common the presence of intellectuality, the appreciation of knowledge, and the strong dissatisfaction of both characters regarding the world they live in, including human relations. These and other conditions lead the protagonists to conflicting worlds that mix reflection, dissatisfaction, anguish, hopelessness, and failure. The two books, from the narrative point of view, tell about sadness and suffering, because there are no perspectives; there is no horizon for the two characters. These issues are discussed taking into account that both authors made use of very similar features to create their stories, such as the physical appearance and a murder. Journalists and computer engineers; and also literary texts creators, thus intellectuals, both protagonists become helpless by knowledge and are not spared by the feeling of failure. With the economic power being the key element in each of these works; the man walking towards civilization, but increasingly returning to their origin; the inversion of values, the extraordinary advancement of technology superimposing on us, and taking us away from ourselves and from others, and yet before the absence of a horizon that comforts us and makes our acquired knowledge throughout human history worth, we wonder: aesthetically, will not be back a new loser, a new unable to live life? Here's a hypothesis. It takes an extensive and intensive work to answer it and confirm it. What we can say is that the Western world context and situation show that the ground is very friendly and supportive to the existence of a new range of loser-type characters.
Campbell, Françoise. "Pursuing the impossible : the ambivalence of utopia in the novels of Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC331.
Full textThis thesis examines utopian representations in the novels of Michel Houellebecq. Moving beyond previous definitions of Houellebecq’s utopias as either utopian, dystopian, or anti-utopian, it explores the ways in which the reading of ambivalence may provide the means for a re-evaluation of these works, in line with critical trends in the utopian genre. In doing so, this thesis seeks to show that beyond the depiction of Western decline that these texts are typically known for, one of the driving questions of Houellebecq’s writing is how to imagine a way out of our current bind.Focussing on a corpus of seven primary texts, comprising Houellebecq’s six novels and one novella, this thesis analyses the role of ambivalence across four key aspects of Houellebecq’s utopian representation: space, rhetoric, ideology, and form. In doing so, it draws on the critical utopian theory of Louis Marin, Fredric Jameson, Ernst Bloch and Tom Moylan to provide the methodological framework for the identification and interpretation of utopian ambivalence in the corpus. Through this line of enquiry, this thesis demonstrates the potential for reading Houellebecq’s utopias as critical reflections on utopian desire and imagination within the context of our contemporary society, and, in doing so, it illustrates how the study of ambivalence offers a greater understanding of Houellebecq’s texts as complex literary and social products. As such, this thesis argues for the understanding of Houellebecq’s novels as complex and ambivalent portrayals of utopianism. By proposing an interpretation of Houellebecq’s utopian paradigms that is not necessarily limited to the reading of anti-utopianism and despair, this thesis thus provides a comprehensive demonstration of the complexity by which Houellebecq foregrounds the contingency of utopian desire, through his representations. In this way, this thesis shows how, by pursuing the impossible, Houellebecq’s writing offers an extension of utopia’s critical function, bringing the reader face to face with the limits of their own utopian imagination while portraying the continued desire for utopian pursuits
Brandão, Gandhia Vargas. "Literatura e pós-modernidade : "produtos" do capitalismo no romance Extensão do domínio da luta, de Michel Houellebecq." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/1182.
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Esta pesquisa concentra-se na investigação do entrelaçamento dos temas: pósmodernidade, capitalismo, civilização, identidade e esquizofrenia com alguns exemplos da produção literária contemporânea, mais especificamente aquela que trata do sujeito contemporâneo como resultado da efervescência de acontecimentos do século XX. Esta literatura é representada neste trabalho por Extensão do domínio da luta (HOUELLEBECQ, 1994/2004), obra do escritor francês Michel Houellebecq, primeiro romance publicado do autor, que constitui o corpo de análise desta pesquisa. Os demais romances de Houellebecq, Partículas elementares (1998/1999), Plataforma (2001/2002) e A possibilidade de uma ilha (2005/2006) são explorados como reforçadores de conceitos, já que funcionam como universos extensivos em que as idéias de Extensão do domínio da luta aparecem. Para tanto, vemos primeiramente o que se diz da época atual, amparados por pensadores como Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey e Linda Hutcheon. Logo depois, amparados por Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche e Roland Barthes, traçamos panorama da expressão artística desde o início da idade moderna até a contemporaneidade. Em seguida, amparados por Eric Hobsbawn, nos aprofundamos nesse campo, ressaltando a evolução do sistema econômico capitalista e suas relações com a arte e a literatura com o objetivo de compreender os elos existentes entre a contemporaneidade e o capitalismo. Por último, amparados por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, como contraponto da teoria psicanalítica freudiana, destacamos uma das conseqüências do modo de vida capitalista, a esquizofrenia – de efeitos não muito animadores por um lado, mas libertários por outro –, é advinda da negação que o sistema capitalista impõe ao ser humano de sua complexidade. No tocante à literatura, este estudo pretende situá-la entre modernidade e pósmodernidade, levantando algumas possibilidades de compreensão por meio da relação com outras categorias de texto, tais como o ensaio. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This research focuses on the investigation of the interlacement among the topics: post-modernity, capitalism, civilization, identity, schizophrenia and some examples of the contemporary literature production, mainly that which concerns the contemporary man as a result of the twentieth century. This literature is represented here by Extensão do domínio da luta (HOUELLEBECQ, 1994/2004), first novel of Michel Houellebecq, which is the analysis corpus of this research. The other Houellebecq’s novels: Partículas elementares (1998/1999), Plataforma (2001/2002) and A possibilidade de uma ilha (2005/2006) are explored as concept reinforcers because they work as extensive universes in which the ideas of Extensão do domínio da luta appear. Firstly, there is a discussion about our contemporary world. This discussion is supported by the theories of thinkers such as Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey and Linda Hutcheon. Then, supported by the ideas of Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche and Roland Barthes, there is a panorama of the artistic expression since the beginning of modern age up to our contemporary age. After that, supported by Eric Hobsbawn, we go deeper in this subject, reinforcing the evolution of the capitalist economical system and its relations to art and literature with the objective of understanding the links between the contemporary age and capitalism. Finally, supported by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as a counterpoint to Freud’s psychoanalysis, one of the capitalist lifestyle consequences is remarked: schizophrenia. That, with not very exciting effects but on the other hand a freedom giver, comes from the human’s attitude, imposed by the capitalist system, of denying its own complexity. In relation to literature, this work intends to place it among modernity and postmodernity making some possibilities of comprehension arise through the association of it with other categories of text, such as the critical essay.
Ménard, Claire. "L’Insoutenable flexibilité de l’Être : réseaux et errances dans la littérature et le cinéma contemporains." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080151.
Full textThis dissertation studies representations – in contemporary French and Francophone literary fiction and feature films – of the developing condition associated with global markets and networking technology; a condition that the word “flexibility” aptly summarizes. My approach to this issue draws on the “rhizome” concept proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari – that is, on the idea of a discursive space in which everything is connected and which therefore functions like a network. As the Deleuze and Guattari critique of categorization highlighted the non-linear and non-centrifugal nature of the structures governing the creation of meaning, it can also help us study new forms of representation, communication and signification which are by essence both polymorphic and in constant mutation. This state of affairs supposedly gives more room to creativity and innovation; it can be argued, nevertheless, that in the 21st century, capitalism itself behaves more and more like a rhizome, that is to say an ever-changing and polymorphic structure, which forces human beings to constantly adapt in order to fit into this world, thereby becoming more flexible. We have only begun to take stock of this ongoing process of enforced flexibility, and of the suffering that may result from it for the ever-adapting humanity that we have become. My dissertation calls this anguish or unease courtesy of Milan Kundera – “the unbearable flexibility of being.” This research aims at studying this anguish in French Contemporary Literature and Films in works of literature by Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Michel Houellebecq, Marie Redonnet and Eric Chevillard and in films by directors such as Leos Carax, Laurent Cantet, Nicolas Klotz, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Marc Moutout and Cédric Klapisch
Granger, Remy Maud. "Le roman posthumain." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030040.
Full textThrough a comparative analysis of the novels of Houellebecq, Dantec, Ellis and Gibson, this dissertation attempts to define the transnational literary genre that I call The Posthuman Novel. The posthuman novelists are children of the media-age. Their abilities to use and abuse media coverage makes them experts in the orchestration of various scandals, which illustrate the evolution of the status of literature at the mass media age, and the position of the writer, between intellectual engagement and star system. These texts can be defined first ideologically as discourses of the endings: End of the world and apocalyptic aesthetics; end of man and death of the character. The posthuman age is the defeat of the individual. Generally the posthuman writers are testifying to the loss of those modern conceptions of man, space and time inspired by transcendence and ideals. We will also observe the novels endings as they illustrate a problematic relationship with utopia. This pessimistic discourse is elaborated through a highly satirical style, which reveals the provocative and prophetic stance of these writers. The stylistic analysis of the satiric techniques shows that satire functions as a moral position, linked to prophecy, but also as a narrative technique which reveals the mutations of language and makes the global language audible. These linguistic mutations give way to a generic redefinition of the novel. Phenomena such as simulation and massification question the generic limits of the texts. The integration of virtual spaces in the narrative questions the fictional space, the staging of tourism questions the construction of the plot and the gothic pattern contribute to the derealisation of these fictions. In fact, the posthuman writers build the model of a disincarnated novel – a novel which has freed itself of the limits of realism, but has also lost touch with the flesh. Those narratives obsessed by the actual, are loosing sight of the living
Sala, Luigi. "Formation, dé-formation et accomplissement véritable : Goethe, Houellebecq et Tondelli." Thesis, Tours, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOUR2021/document.
Full textAnalysing the general functioning of capitalism, as well as its structural relationship with the paradigmatic transformations of science, our thesis shows the deep role of formation in imposing, on a systemic plan, the capitalism itself. The first part particularly focused on the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, shows how capitalism mystify its own essence: the non-fulfilment. This one, it isn’t an immediate and intrinsic moment of capitalism, but rather as an intermediary of formation: promising the subject’s accomplishment in a learning process, the formation discovers actually, at the end of the formative process, the non-fulfilment of the forming subject. Capitalism confirms, through formation, its own essence
Giri, Hemlata. "En quête d'une société idéale : la dialectique de l'utopie et de la dystopie dans Travail d'Emile Zola et La Possibilité d'une île de Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA040.
Full textThis doctoral research on the works of Emile Zola and Michel Houellebecq is constituted in a comparative perspective because they share common concerns. While both novels deal with diagonally opposite terms of utopia and dystopia, science remains the common link. In the nineteenth century science and technology made huge progress. The rise of the Third Republic reaffirmed the values of liberty, equality, fraternity that inspired the ideals of the French Revolution; also State and religion were separated in 1905. But soon after, with two World Wars the dream of establishing utopia fell apart. Thereafter, the utopian concept was distorted per convenience and it came to be defined in liberal terms as an outcome of the rise of market economy. Hundred years after, Houellebecq denounces the existence of utopian world. For Houellebecq, liberalism has become a synonym of violence, inequality and debauch. Emile Zola and Michel Houellebecq look differently at the role of science in social development. On one hand, Zola disillusioned by the role of religion, believed in the achievement of a better world based on scientific and technological progress. In contrast, Houellebecq opposes the idea of progress through science and advocates it as a mean of destruction of the humanity. In quest to work on the novels Travail of Zola and The possibility of an island of Houellebecq, we’ve selected an original approach that will analyze the poetics of the notion of utopian/dystopian novel and the question of utopia and dystopia in the selected works of both authors
Khedre, Mounira. "Naguib Mahfouz et Michel Houellebecq : deux romanciers face au tabou religieux. Le cas des Fils de la Médina [Awlâd Hâratinâ] et de Plateforme." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00831353.
Full textRezeanu, Ioana-Cătălina. "Les échos dix-neuviémistes dans l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq : Balzac, Zola, Huysmans, Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lamartine, Baudelaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0190.
Full textAt the origin of this study lies the invocation by Michel Houellebecq of the nineteenth-century readings that marked his youth and also his clear opposition to writers of the XXth century to whom he prefers the writings of the XIXth century. Our interest was aroused by his constant references and allusions to names such as Balzac, Zola, Huysmans, Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lamartine, Baudelaire. What do they have to say to him? If Michel Houellebecq moves towards this period of the past, it is because it coincides with the first anti-modern protests against the coldness of liberalism, of capitalism, the irreligious spirit, that is against the three evils which are responsible for the disruption of the (post)modern social structure.The first part of our comparative analysis introduces the novels of Houellebecq into realism - an echo to Balzac -, to naturalism - in reference to Zola, relating to decadence - evoking Huysmans. The second is the thread of philosophical reasoning of Auguste Comte, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, of which Houellebecq feeds his judgments about love and religion, under the influence of a resentment sometimes discreet, sometimes sharp. The last part also enters on the territory of the Houellebecq poetry. In echo to Lamartine and Baudelaire we will discover a Houellebecq enlightened by a sensitivity that he uses in prophetic projects with utopian or dystopian reach. His work certainly belongs to the postmodern literary tradition, but it has the merit of revalorizing the voices of the romantics and the first witnesses of modern times
Tello, Carlos. "Houellebecq et Volpi, romanciers posthumanistes ? : Une lecture de deux romans de Michel Houellebecq, Les particules élémentaires (1998) et La possibilité d'une île (2005), et de la trilogie du XXe siècle de Jorge Volpi, En busca de Klingsor (1999), El fin de la locura (2003), et No será la Tierra (2006) à la lumière du posthumanisme." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019UNIP7115.
Full textVarious discourses associated with posthumanism have mainly developed from the 1950s, expressed through technoscientific advances as well as through artistic and literary works and even in politics. In this context, the period between the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century was defined by the release of the Rules for the Human Park [Regeln für den Menschenpark] by Peter Sloterdijk at a conference in Germany in 1999, whore launched the debate on biotechnology and anthropotechnology in Europe. In parallel, the publications in Mexicoand Spain of Jorge Volpi’s trilogy of the twentieth century, En busca de Klingsor (1999), El fin de la locura (2003) and No será la Tierra (2006), and in France, the novels by Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires (1998)and La Possibilité d’une île (2005), bear the imprint of this period. The present work begins by studying these five novels taking into account the fundamental topics of posthumanist configuration through critical and theoretical discourses which address this movement. It then proposes to analyze in parallel, on the one hand, the perception and representation of the history, the past, the present and the future among novelists, and on the other hand key milestones for the creation and development of posthumanism, from its mythical and science-fictional sources to the manifestations of the American "counter-culture". Posthumanism is thus envisaged not only as a subject that serves as a mediation between two works, but also in its epistemological dimension. A dimension present in the novels of both authors, and that they allow to reconsider
Sturli, Valentina. "Le figure dell’invenzione negli inediti di Francesco Orlando : teoria, prospettive, applicazioni." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL033.
Full textThe thesis considers previously unpublished works by Italian literary critic and theoretician Francesco Orlando (1934-2010) concerning the subject of literary invention. The ideas expressed in these works, with due contextualization, provide interesting contributions in the debate about methodologies and tools of research in the field of thematic criticism. The material I consider consists in notes and in the audio tapes of a consistent corpus of lectures and conferences, and leaves room for further interpretative developments. My research considers Orlando’s material as a theoretical frame for an analysis of Italian author Walter Siti and French author Michel Houellebecq, who share important common features both thematically and stylistically
Batsielili, Mbina Cydriane Loane. "Subversion esthétique autour de Jean Genet, Michel Houellebecq et Georges Perec : « Le Journal du voleur », « Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs », « Les Particules élémentaires » et « W ou le souvenir d’enfance »." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MULH7131.
Full textBy mean of plural keys for understanding mixing psychanalysis and textual poetic, my thesis involve in building an analysis around three authors with different styles that I’ve joined in the same wake: the esthetical subversion around Genet, Houllebecq and Perec. The subversion heard as sublimation and inversion. The aim of my work was not a comparative study on these three authors belonging to the 20th and 21st century, but rather to intermingle them in order to understand the unspoken of their works. It is therefore through these three levels of analysis that I will tried to explain this thematic and the reasons of the subversion. The first level deals with subversive aesthetic under his different definitions through the jamming value. The notions of beauty /ugliness and truth / lie are transformed in a will of break. The aesthetic also deals with that jamming value approach. The second step presents the esthetical subversion as member of a search for identity, in order to distinguish and distance oneself. Indeed the authors set up in the text a mechanism of detachment so that the meaning is not given but is to be built. The last level of analysis is about the authors’ commitment above the subversion which is emphasised. Write is tell the private and also tell the word
Rubichon, Jackie. "La représentation du réel dans quelques romans contemporains : les nouveaux réalistes." Pau, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PAUU1003.
Full textThose novels which foment the confusion between reality and fiction reveal a strong tendancy to this in contemporary litterature. The latter, however, does not appear to account for the state of the world today which already seems to be under the influence of a similar amalgamation. In this way, some narratives appertaining, at varying levels, to autofiction are taken as examples since they contain precisely the characteristic of intermingling fictitious passages with facts relating to the author/narrator’s personal life, the narrator thus becoming the fictional character of his own story. Furthermore, the autofictional narrative refers more to itself than to the outside world, and emphasis is also placed on personal experience, thus preventing a view of life as a whole which would enable the analysis of events from a distance. Subsequently approached are subjects dealt with by novelists, referred to herein as neo-realists, meaning that these novelists devote their respective narratives to the representation of reality within contemporary western society. The qualitative adjective neo is justified by the fact that these writers account for the political and economic changes in society as from the end of the second world war in order to bring to light the phenomenon of fictionalization of existing reality. It is finally shown that the representation of this reality which appears to be more and more confused and in which the boundaries are becoming blurred undergoes, in the eyes of contemporary realist writers, a revalorization of the mediation which constitutes language and of the symbolic distance in order, thanks to fiction, to analyse reality with detachment
Arènes, Jacques. "Fonction du religieux dans l'élaboration psychique : narcissime, impasses de subjectivation et question du religieux." Paris 7, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA070033.
Full textAccording to the Freudian model, religion is one of the main factors in the work of culture. This active nature of religion can be found, at the individual level, throughout the new data regarding the contemporary subject, and may be coined as 'subjectivation'. Thus, this dissertation undertakes the task of studying how the person who adopts a religion makes the space of one's faith one's own. This study falls within the register of an anthropological thinking rooted in the psychoanalytical theory. It pits against each other two types of discourse - the psychoanalytical one and the religious one-within the broader perspective of an archaeology of knowledge. The reason why the psychoanalytical and the religious field should be made to interact is that they produce a comment on each other, thus constituting a fruitful thinking process. Four main topics are tackled and linked together: first, an analysis of the new shapes taken by religion, second an exploration of the many subjectivation processes in relation with this new given, third some thinking around the necessity to 'mourn God' in our culture and its impact on the believer, and last a thorough study of the 'tools' involved in subjectivation and transformation, as linked with religion. In the course of this presentation, the conversion model will be studied, as well as the creative register of mysticism. If the 'clinical' side of psychoanalysis may be evoked lightly, some spiritual texts- contemporary and modem alike- will be more heavily relied upon. We will conclude on the paradigm of the creative subject, thus suggesting a possible way out of the work of the negative, in the Hegelian or psychoanalytical definition of the term
Tepes, Gabriela Loredana. "Aspects de la réception des romans de Michel Houellebecq en France." Mémoire, 2009. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2514/1/M10956.pdf.
Full textKuon, Ludwig [Verfasser]. "René Girard und die Wahrheit des Romans : der mimetische Konflikt als Handlungsschema in den Romanen von Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991), Michel Houellebecq, Elementarteilchen (1996), und Vladimir Sorokin, Der himmelblaue Speck (1999) / vorgelegt von Kuon, Ludwig." 2006. http://d-nb.info/980698979/34.
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