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Bonhomme, Bérénice. "Claude Simon, la passion cinéma." Nice, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008NICE2016.
Full textCritics of Claude Simon have already studied the relation of his work to the image, whether photographic or pictorial, but the links with cinema have never been seriously studied. This is why my own research intends to explore the complex links between his work and the cinematographic image, and why I focus my analysis on the endlessly recycled dialogue between writing and film production, in order to show how the transition from one medium to another influences in particular Claude Simon’s creative procedures. It is well known that the writer started to devise a film scenario for his novel La route des Flandres as early as 1961, but that this project floundered. What I hope to demonstrate is that this failed encounter did however engender and enrich the dynamics of a whole literary enterprise. I also undertake in the first instance a study of the way in which the machinery of the cinema sometimes quite transparently influences several aspects of the style of Simon’s writing : notably in terms of viewing, framing, lighting and montage, which have all left their mark on his writing, and have indeed inspired, inflected, structured or deconstructed it. I then proceed to explore the cinematographic geography of Claude Simon, seen as spectator, in order to throw new light on an author born and bathed in the cinema. I follow the author’s progress as writer and cinema viewer. I show how he was marked by encounters with cinema, from the birth of the movies, the burlesque and surrealist film, to the mythical age of Hollywood, including the Western, through to the explosion of porn. And finally, observing the writer’s two concrete proposals for film adaptation of his novels, the montage for La route des Flandres and the documentary inspired by Triptyique, both brimming with enthusiasm and disappointment, I am able to throw new light on the ambiguous relations elaborated between Claude Simon as writer and artist and Claude Simon faced with the choices of a potential film director
Rouchette, Pierre. "Tentative de restitution de Claude Simon." Toulouse 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998TOU20026.
Full textThis thesis is about a restitution of what could have been the way of this contemporary righter, together with some elements of his personality. Starting from the hypothesis, suggested by the distinctive tone of "L'acacia", that the mental work performed in the righting of the novels also allowed a psychological elaboration, this dissertation aims at showing how the novels, as a whole, are evidence of this progress. After an introduction, characterizing the specificity of the Simonian righting, a first part states the relationship with the family authorities, who structure the universe of the novels around some figures incessantly questioned. Then a second part shows that this need to stop the hole ; conceals in fact an archaic feeling of anguish which strews the text with his specific signs, i. E. The images of a splintered world which can be described. At last, a third part studies the mastery of style, notably by examining the part played by the metaphor, or by exploring the form likely to represent chaos. A conclusion tries to draw a general viewpoint on the complete works, and to cast a particular light on the personality of the righter and his position among the novelists of his time
Glacet, Aymeric. "Photographie, chronophotographie et pornographie dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Lille 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004LIL30006.
Full textCadet, Laurence. "La filiation proustienne de Claude Simon." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030095.
Full textThe proustian filiation of Claude Simon takes root first into the involuntary memory which gives a new role to the description and upset in depth the romantic kind. Then, it recieves the literary context influence of the "new new novel". Proust is deprived of his psychological content and likened to the set theory. He becomes a textual generator, a scriptural conposition's model. Finally, reviving with the referentiality (the lyric voice, the hermeneutic story, the metatextuality) it's again Proust that Claude Simon comes across, this "great revolutionist", in the words of Claude Simon
Longuet, Patrick. "La mémoire dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon : trames et figures remémoratives." Grenoble 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992GRE39013.
Full textThe mind given by c simon to recollections, then to their mode of appearance, is going to guide his way of working the languege. The presence of memory in his works derives from some radical experiences of violence. The world, the codes, the meaning turn out to be questionned and the writer's language is figured by a general doubt-with reference to his constituents. The author listens to his material and progresses in connection with diverse forms of alterity. Through which he composes his novels. In a care becomed necessary in front of any way of expression c. Simon reconstitutes some reminding ways or rides, under the influence of the languege that appears to write them. The mental disorder of memory forbids classical modes pf narration and stimulates an active vigilance that impresses itself in the narrations as a continuous breath. This disorder brings the writer at some juxtapositions, ruptures, analogies that dispose themselves like baroque elements. This esthetic is founded on an ethic of deepness, gravity : the melancoly. In front of a substratum mythical's traces, with the pieces of a puzzle of whom the totalizing image is lost, the text disposes discrete elements in a vocal continuity. The space of which it gives a representation, mixt of space, time and being, square with the most studied figures of our time, those discovered by the enquiring minds in front of any form of complexity
Isolery, Jacques. "La cruauté dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Strasbourg 2, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995STR20056.
Full textIs the problem of meaning and its articulation the center of cruelty in claude simon's oeuvre? this study, by primarily focussing on the ironic play of narratives and discursives, aims at defining curelty in the ruptures between the real and its event. It seeks to answer the question : can death, war, pain, love, and the other, be the object of a representation in consciousness and in writing? nature and history, in their dramatic and tragic dimensions, also put language to the ironic test of the feminine and the masculin, the impassible and the law, the forces and the froms. Failing to maintain the authenticity of a truth, the simonain meaning event brings it self towards the reader on order to submit him to the effects of a minological cruelty. Cruelty's schema by inscribing itself in poietic, semantic, structural, and aesthetic stages, reveals its tragic origins. It places the ontological and metaphysical problems of interpretations into the realm of contemporary literary analysis. The reading schows itself to be an ethical process, between nihilims and tragic langhter. In this republican space, where all roads lead nowhere, blind orion makes of each event the occasion of a joyfull approbation
Luzi, Christophe. "L' archive simonienne." Aix-Marseille 1, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AIX10062.
Full textOrace, Stéphanie. "Répétition, boucle, complication : problèmes de l'itération dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030115.
Full textIn each novel, Claude Simon resumes the same manner as his past writing. This phenomenon of repetition, its structures, its emergences, its functions are analysed. At first in the microtexte, we observe the relationship between iteration and punctuation. The pronouns, the question of reference and the rythm are also examined for they involve repetition. Subsequently in the macrotexte, the set of themes and the novelistic composition show the importance of iterative process : the Simon's vision as well as the structure are based on it. The analyse of rewriting leads to a typology of variations. Lastly, we encompass the whole works where the same characters reappear : this characteristic confronts us with the question of novelistic cycle. .
Haman, Catherine. "Entre union et désunion : Claude Simon, la tension à l'oeuvre." Littoral, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008DUNK0213.
Full textLaureate of the Nobel prize of literature, a major honour which ranks him among Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Isaac Bashevis Singer, or also, closer to us, Imre Kertész and Orhan Pamuk, Claude Simon, like all these writers of various horizons and styles, built his work upon questions haunting the contemporary period. Unlike Jean-Paul Sartre, who, as we remember, refused to accept the prize in question, Claude Simon forbade himself from imposing seemingly definitive answers and limited himself to narrating, to describing, to rendering with modesty a monumental part of Man’s history. His modesty and his prudence caused him for a long time to appear to be a purely formalist writer, radically “désengagé” ; this opinion was in keeping with the orthodoxy of the seventies and with the attitudes adopted by Alain Robbe-Grillet, leader of the Nouveau Roman movement, and with his strong disapproval of Sartre dogmatism and didactism. However, to the present day reader of his work, it seems difficult to remain unmoved by the way in which his texts reflect the dramas and conflicts of the 20th century ; his work is enimently political : it is an area of refraction, of reflection, a patient and passionate recomposition of a collective destiny, of the singular repercussions, minimal though often tragical, of History’s inexorable progression
Heizmann, Bernard. "Le personnage dans l’œuvre de Claude Simon." Nancy 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991NAN21022.
Full textIn this publication, we have intended to make out how the characters in the fiction of Claude Simon may function and develop. We have made use of a critical apparatus based on semiology and narratology; we have studied the characters as consistent semantic wholes, spread out all along the text, conveyed by designators, built in the overall architecture of the novel, with a structuring role. From Gulliver to les géorgiques the characters with the work move through several periods. First, they strive with influences and tradition and have already lost their psychological or social balance. Then, they break up, caught in the discourse of a narrator or in the point of view of a character, who vainly try to reach reality through language. Designation is no longer sufficient to define them and them ara outlined through metaphors and recurring meaning units. In the following novels, as proper nouns disappear, they evolve into numerous signifies, which become harmoniously integrated into a text built in a musical or pictorial way. As a point of view, they remain a basic element bringing information and focusing on them, and thus, making the text rich. In les géorgiques the characters reappear as "heroes»: they act, writ, remember. . . And so, become once again one of the essential elements in a work focused on its actors. Sensitive to some influences, refusing to cope with the balzacian standard or the greimasian analysis, the characters of Simon are framed through metaphors a semantic consistency prodiding them with an internal balance and connecting them with the other actors and novelistic features. No longer appearing through a classical and univocal designation, they remain a pattern bringing their specificity and richness to the whole work
Thouillot, Michel. "Débâcles et stratégies : les structures de la polémicité dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030095.
Full textHaunted by numerous wars, claude simon's works develop a war cycle, from la route des flandres (1960) to l'acacia (1989), in which multiple tensions take shape: - from the superficial angle of narrative units (polemical structures in which the vanquished are implicated) - in depth with the semantic structures in which the protagonists in the rout discuss over a small number of diversely axiologized valeus (categories life death and civilization nature) - from the intertextual confrontation between war accounts (criticisms from claude simon of the various ideals : historical novels, military accounts and manuals. - then pragmatically, after a long fight which witnesses the triumph of representation over the quest of a meaning, at the intersection of several semiotic systems (wrighting, painting, photography), and the evolution of enunciative strategies (scrambling, camouflage), aiming at producing variations over the major cognitive failure of the war to be shared : war is as elusive for those who write about it as for those who wage it. All those levels are linked by a dynamic principal which may be. .
Henderson, Suzanne. "Temps et histoire dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Rouen, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993ROUEL176.
Full textAt first, objective measuring signs, specific things, material imagination, allegories, corporeal wear, degradation of homes, possibilities offered by memory show, at the outset, the negative, wild nature of human time. Yet, approaching the question by an analysis of the so called historical time allows to rrevise this first statement : for an eventful, linear, progressive view, simon substitutes another time, another history. Cosmic, repeating subject to incomprehensible physical laws, defying human action, writing, memory attempts, it unfolds its vast spiral, always on the move, where an incessantly renewed elementary life holds the fragmentary, disorderly, chaotic nature of mortal time in check. We seldom hear, in Simon's novels, revolt, elegiac complaint and never feel an absurd or tragic accent. On the contrary, a metaphysics of time, carried by the own rythmn of the style, insists on the teeming complexity of living, on the vitalism of the world. Far from secular, religious eschatologies, men must, here and now, sensuallytake the happiness of the moment, intuitively perceiving a vast universal time to which all the other modalities are subordinated
Kashio, Gaku. "Problématique de la mimésis chez Louis-Ferdinand Céline et Claude Simon." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040080.
Full textThis work proposes to put in parallel the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Claude Simon, guided by the problematic of the mimesis. According to the first of the two principal meanings, the mimesis indicates the interactive relationship between the text and what one proposes to call here out-text; the first two parts of this work are dedicated to the analysis of the relationship between two series of constituent units of text and two categories of out-text: firstly between the constituent units of the text as universe and the empirical reality, secondly between the units of the linguistic dimension of the text and the system of the language. According to the second principal meaning, the mimesis indicates the active process of composition. By putting the reality of composition in the foreground the consubstantiality of two dimensions of universe and language appears in all its indivisible character, and the purpose is to observe the specific mechanism of the composition and its dynamics, first of all on the formal side, secondly on the informal and expansive side of the imaginary. Through these various series of analyses, the aim is to observe the diversity and the specificity of the forms and the means used for the novelistic production, and to show how the Céline and Simon’s works call into question and renew, at the same time, the novelistic creation and the literary theory
Blanc, Anne-Lise. "Les figures de l'autre dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Claude Simon." Paris 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA030004.
Full textThe study shows the presence of the other in a work reputed for its resistance to realist representation, not only in the story but also in the narration and in the text (other texts or diverse materials are often used as a source). Otherness, an essential component of the work, makes uncertain the various constituents of the narrative and is to be read through the conflicting relationships between the text and the history as well as among the characters themselves, who, very much like the narrator in his descriptions, always keep the other at a distance, sometimes in a caricatured way. The other, in response, is an alteration principle, or even a threat of alienation for identities or of disfigurement for the bodies which he often hides behind masks. Alteration, when achieved through fragmentation, aims at making the other ready for new figuration. Thus, otherness is generative, it defines a dialog space between the text and the world, wich is perceived as an heterogeneous, ambiguous sphere confined by hybrid, moving and recurrent figures. The consistency of the figure balances the scattering effect of otherness. It can be spotted in its mode of presentation, in its expanding and binding capacity throughout the text, in the twists and turns of the text that sketches its indistinct outline. The main function of the figure is to reveal the other, sometimes in an enigmatic form of projection or a paradoxical process of concealment. The figure is essentially what allows to reduce the distance between the language and the world, it aims at presenting the text as a body. The second volume of the thesis offers a complete bibliography of all the publications related to claude simon's works together with a thematic bibliography on the figure, the intertextuality, the otherness, the "new novel" and novel texts in general
Zemmour, David. "L'écriture de la perception dans les romans de Claude Simon : une syntaxe du sensible." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040180.
Full textTwo ideas are at the origin of this work : on the one hand, the importance of perception to a large extent in Claude Simon's novels, i. E. Including recollection and imagination. On the other hand, a syntax which cannot be followed by a traditional sentence model. The analysis of the writing of perception was carried out in two parts. The first part is linguistic. In the first place, it determines the position of the sentence grammatically and thematically before substituting for it another model adapted from macro-syntactic theories and from their principal unities, i. E. The clause (unit of assertion) and the period (phenomenal unit). The second part is stylistic. On the basis of the precise syntactic model, it comments upon the representation of perception as an action in Simon's work, in the first place at the level of the clause by examining the order of its constituents, and in the second place in the dynamics of the inter-clausal relations. This double approach reveals the decantation work through the writing of the different stages of the perception act (sensation, recognition, identification), as well as the effort which is as obsessional as vain tending to fill the gaps of perception, essentially incomplete
Bernard, Olivier. "Le roman de Claude Simon, texte mosai͏̈que : intégrations et enjeux des fragments rapportés dans le roman de Claude Simon." Caen, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001CAEN1326.
Full textDubosclard, Geneviève Monique. "Le rectangle et l'éventail : étude sur la description dans les romans de Claude Simon." Strasbourg, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010STRA1035.
Full textThe thesis contributes to the study of description in Claude Simon's novels. It demonstrates that an original art of the novel hinges on the predominance of detailing and detailed descriptions. For this purpose, the study explores the characteristics of Simon's description as pertaining to the rectangle and the fan, to both cutting and expanding actions. The descriptive modes are examined according to a triple perspective which is first narrative, then critical and, lastly, plastic. The first part aims at showing how the limits of narrative and description get redefined. The optical devices, the tempi, the ekphrasis are analysed insofar as they function as constant stimuli to the unforeseen and unforeseeable narrative dynamics. The second part has to do with the intrinsic speculative strength of the descriptive work. Dives into experiments of the fall, disintegration of any classical hierarchy, exploratory experimentation, estrangement process, such are the "grounds of description" that are then apprehended. The third stage of the study focuses on the way the inflexions of the descriptive enunciation come to shift our experience of reality. Indissociable as it is from a plastic challenge issued to writing, Simon's description asserts its presence on account of its being a magnetic field. It is thus established that this "prose du monde" originates in an art of connections interweaving a confusing mimesis and verbal expenditure underlain by a language imaginary
El, Mahi Abdelaziz. "Lectures sur la réception critique de Claude Simon : "Le vent", "L' Herbe" et "La route des Flandres" par Abdelaziz El Mahi." Bordeaux 3, 1992. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=1992BOR30047.
Full textThese three novels of claude simon are what we called the central phase of his writing and have tried to formulate and develop a number of working hypothesis. - this body of woork was characterized by its diverse and even contradictory reception among different readers. - our problematic begins with a preliminary argument that subsumes this paradox : the supposed uniqueness of the text opposed to diversity of the readings and the system of references which surround it. - we have backed up our hypothesis foreshadowing critical texts which responded to the writing of this phase. - we have tried to integrate the role of the reader, his norms, and his values as a decisive parameter in analysing this diversity of readings. - we have established an organic typology at each reading taking into consideration the aesthetic experience that was displayed by the interaction between the text and its readers
Rioux-Watine, Marie-Albane. "La voix dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Claude Simon : la transparence et la frontière." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040064.
Full textAlthough structuralist criticism promotes it as the text's main subject, speach is constantly hindered in Claude Simon's novels. Through the systematic analysis of the noises that affect the different communicational posts, it will appear that the intersubjective boundaries coexist with a direct contact fantasy which could do without cultural or semiotic detour. This transparency is built on the pattern of the live voice. Appears then the figure of a “phonocentrist” writer, who denies the writing and presents the voice as the vehicle of a perfect communication, without the sign's bypass. The text should therefore embed the voice in itself, through the artifacts of reported speech and voices' descriptions. The systematic study of RS shows a constant oscillation between the highlighting of the heterogeneous and the inclusion of vocal alterity. The descriptions show moreover a certain fading of the voices : the link with the present and the speaker seems to vanish. The analysis of characterizing adjectives shows the aporia of the voice of the self, dissolved in an atopic rumour. The coexistence of a voice with no contour and the transparent vocal circulation resurges in the descriptions of the mouth, the organ of speech. As a heuristic organ, it reveals the other's body, but takes part at the same time in the subject's hollowing. The mouth nullyfies the langage and thus the link to the outside world. The existence of a boundary is actually what makes any contact possible. The dual nature of voice (living and faded) reflects the effect of the novels have on the reader, both a sense of presence, and one of distance
Chautard, Paul. "Essai sur une problématique et une systémique des images, dans "Le Palace" de Claude Simon." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989CLF20022.
Full textImagery is undeniably the typical key-word in the vocabulary used by claude simon in his various commentaries on his art, in view of both its potency and frequency. Imagery, in fact, creates a problem of methodology : since it is a vague concept, it needs to be analysed on different levels. When applied to a romanesque universe, moreover, it is inevitably a limiting factor, and appears even more inadequate in mastering the specific problems of literary innovation. In spite of these contradictions is it not then likely to lead to other interpretations through its own subversion? what fields of analysis is the reading process capable of covering? we attempt to show the mechanisms of this simonian concept through empirical and practical procedures. We situate it in a double perspective : firstly that of phenomenology and secondly that of structuralism. A gradual exploration of the text referring to different levels of the image is progressively defined. This vague concept will lead us precisely to the logic of ambiguity, founded on problematical reality and textual variants. The image becomes the mainspring of a variational art associating a critical function with a poetic one. This function of imagery becomes rooted in the preponderant descriptive apparatus of the novel
Bunel, Thierry. "Histoire, roman du déceptif : l'écriture du "vide" chez Claude Simon." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030134.
Full textClaude simon's novels, histoire in particular, repetitively bring into play the experiencing of disillusionment ("deception") to the extent of establishing a real poetics of disillusionment based on the "deceptif". The deceptif indicates the relationship by which disillusionment (trap, treason, illusion and disillusion concurrently) as created by a changing and omnipresent manifestation - a "representation" - in the novel that is incapable of grasping the world and transforming it into an object, reveals itself and turns into a "de-ception" (movement of retreat, release, letting go, effacement of the subject (ego), all necessary to accept a world which it produces and which becomes an event - the "production". The double movement of the deceptif determines a writing for the pute event, for the "void" (the "vide"). The deceptif process which produces a "void" is similar to the "live metaphor" process described by paul ricoeur and, even more precisely, to the "differance" movement described by derrida. It can be recognized in those writings other than romanesque (autiography, historiography, mysticism and mythology) and those esthetics (mannerist, cubist and baroque) that compose in an "interruptif" way the text ("recit") of histoir; in other writers (mauriac, leiris, michaux); in cinematographic art (greenaway in particular), besides pictoral and musical (bach art; in the spritiual practices of the far east (buddhism, taoism and zen)
Kouakou, Jean-Marie. "Problèmes du descriptif contemporain : l'exemple de Claude Simon et de quelques autres néo-romanciers." Limoges, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989LIMO0505.
Full textThis work, which treats the problem of contemporary descriptive writing, aims to deal with both the most classic technical procedures and the most recent methods of descriptive writing used in the novel. Therefore the contents discuss first of all the "oldest" function - representation - and progress to the more modern function of description-narration. Thus this work also examines the question of the future of this strategy which has become a sort of "difficult text" because it has become almost radically transformed
Moon, Hye-Young. "Écrire et décrire : l'enjeu de la description chez Claude Simon." Paris 8, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA083018.
Full textBased on Claude Simon's description, our study aims to reflect on his novels. Prominent in modern writing, the work of Claude Simon demonstrates a form of exclusive account. His writing as a new narrativity opens not only the crossroads of modalities, but also every sense of possible networks converges towards some sense. With particular reference to the pictorial technique, Simon is trying to achieve simultaneity in the novel. In addition to partnering with the photographic technique or film technique, his writing is based on the description which is fragmented in the story from his memory. The networks of disparate images coming from an initial image build a specific universe of meaning through sensation and perception. The combination of discontinuous shards places in the movement of his writing whose figure is contained in his memory. Through his georgics writing, Claude Simon participated in the complicated and diverse twentieth century
Colas, Judith. "L'ordre dans les romans de Claude Simon et dans les longs métrages de Peter Greenaeway." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040205.
Full textClaude Simon’s novels and Peter Greenaway’s films give the very strong impressing to be dispersed: the Claude Simon's novels are composed by any stories often interrupted then continued, interrupted again (. . . ). A very strong profusion of elements characterizes the Peter Greenaway’s films. The dispersion is in fact a united order. At first this order erects the speech: it leads ahead novel's and film's writing gradually; it organizes the cohesion of novels and films, and it creates "superpositions" to carry another vision. The order is created too by the intertextual dimension. For Claude Simon and Peter Greenaway, the order is the way through the writing to access the visible
Tournier, Marianne. "La creation artistique et la creation verbale dans l'oeuvre de claude simon." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030005.
Full textMachraoui, Alaoui Ghizlane. "Vision picturale et création romanesque chez Claude Simon : du vent à l'acacia." Grenoble 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994GRE39073.
Full textWithin claude simon's work, the dynamic link between the pictural and the narrative aspects is strongly underlined. Such a finding justifies the predominence of paining on simon's writing. The author's main interest being simultaneity, he tries to work it out at the narrative level by resorting to descriptions through images. It has turned out that claude simon has made his literary work more valuable by taking advantage of the particularly stimulating requirements of the pictural function. This evolues from preliminary remarks which permit to define certain notions such as : "perception", "thing", "pictorial space", "word", "rhythm". The interst of this research has been to put into perspective a poetry established from phenomenal data and from the double determination of literary and pictorial aspects. We have wondered about the investment of simon's creatioin through a "pictorial vision", by examining the different modes of the presence of painting at various levels of the work elaboration. The originality of claude simon's writing lies in his attempt to fuse together the pictorial and the scriptural techniques, and in the use of the technical procedures of painting, which already expresses a lirear harmony of language. The structure of his novels certainly shows that the pictorial organisation imposes itself on his writings
Clément-Perrier, Annie. "Arbres et jardins de l'herbe à l'acacia : l'imaginaire du végétal dans l'oeuvre de Claude Simon." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030011.
Full textIn the works of claude simon the plant realm images, thanks to the revealing importance that the writer grants them, prove that they are the source of his poetic inspiration. They combine the conscious effort of writing and his mental image. If we follow the metamorphosis of these images with the passing of time, throughout his work, we also follow their creative power, we can see how they participate in the structure of the woven fabric of the text
Yocaris, Ilias. "L'impossible totalité : une étude de la complexité dans l'œuvre de Claude Simon." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040171.
Full textLefevere-Guizard, Claire. "La poétique de la répétition dans quatre œuvres de Claude Simon : La Route des Flandres, Histoire, Les Géorgiques, L'Acacia." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30019.
Full textWidely understood as what goes back or comes back under an identical, analogical and equivalent shape, repetition shows itself a major ferment of Simon's works particularly in La Route des Flandres, Histoire, Les Géorgiques and L'Acacia. At the diegetic level, where the reiteration of certain textual dealings exhibits the deficiencies of a being overcome in a chaotic and senseless world, repetition is the stabilizing instrument of a identital registration, of a new logical order and of a hermeneutic resolution. At the narrative level where obsessions congeal a speech burdened by morbid traumatisms, the repetition of a temporal and causal origin bases the regressive movement of a genealogical, phylogenetic and mythical speaking. In the writing finally, repetition points the very mimetic nature of Simon's prose which imitates reality and literary signs, finding so in the reproduction the conditions of a significant production
Feeley, Karin. "Prix Nobel et critique en Suède : étude de deux cas : Gabriel García Márquez et Claude Simon." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030187.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the imaginative capability in the swedish culture through the reception of gabriel garcia marquez and claude simon's literary works. The literary critique to promote these works as well as the articles on the two nobel laureates in the swedish press constitute the corpus of this study. The first part is an attempt to place the two main institutions involved in this reception activity in their historical context. Thus we describe the evolution of the literary field from the strindberg feud until the beginning of the 1980's, the literary system in the late 1970's and the early 1980's and the nobel institution. The second part is an analytical reconstruction of the nobel phenomenon as it was produced by the daily newspapers in 1982 and 1985. Lastly, in the third part, we examine synthetically the different types of critical discourse and the images of french and latin american cultures identified in the texts. We have tried to understand how these elements function in the press and the way the swedish society uses them to express itself during this period
Elahi, Taban. "Réalité, déception, narcissisme dans "Les Fleurs bleues" de Raymond Queneau et "Histoire" de Claude Simon." Tours, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOUR2024.
Full textGenin, Christine. "L'expérience du lecteur dans les romans de Claude Simon, du "Vent a l'Acacia" : lecture studieuse et lecture poignante." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100134.
Full textThis study analyses the modalities of the cognitive experience which is an essential part of the reading process of Claude Simon’s novels: writers, in working on the language and the thematic and formal characteristics that constitute his style, comprehends and restores his own cognitive experience of reality, an experience which we share in the reading process. Reading is, however, an ambivalent pleasure, with two aspects: one intellectual and active, a studious reading, the other emotional and passive, a poignant reading. They must be in constant equilibrium for the reader to have a complete cognitive experience. Each section of this study describes one of three main modalities of the cognitive experience in the reading process of Simon’s works, and attempts to determine the extent of the studious reading and of the poignant reading. Thus are considered: first, the restoration and exploration of perception, principally under its visual and subjective aspects; then, the reconstitution of memory, both personal and collective, and in its dynamic and associative aspects; and lastly, perception and memory are structured through the construction of the text, which reproduces in a coherent network the mental construction of knowledge and emotions. This description of the cognitive experience in the reading process of Simon’s works reveals the importance of the poignant reading, which his critics too often overlook, and, above all, the indissociable nature of the two types of reading, which his critics too often overlook, and, above all, the indissociable nature of the two types of reading processes. In our critical relationship to the text, we must therefore emphasize emotion, without, however, denying the studious part of the critic's subject. We should also rehabilitate the notion of critical consciousness by expanding the notion of consciousness to include all the neurobiological and cognitive content it has acquired today
Hannart-Marmor, Yona. "Des pouvoirs de l’ekphrasis : L’objet auratique dans l’oeuvre de Claude Simon." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030026.
Full textThis work focuses on ekphrasis in Claude Simon’s writings. It is based on the assumption that by analyzing the nature and role of ekphrasis in Simon’s texts, one could reveal some fundamental aspects of the texts’ functioning and shed light on the esthetics of Simon’s novels as a whole. To do so, this thesis first analyzes the ambivalent, paradoxical and subversive nature of Simon’s ekphrasis, which does not necessarily consist in an interruption of the narrative flow or in the description of a work of art. The thesis goes on to try and identify how Simon’s writing forces us to depart from traditional perspectives on ekphrasis. The change is shown to reside in the importance of the subject’s eye when it comes to determining ekphrastic objects and to granting them a certain emotional load, the punctum. Subsequently, the motif of the passing of time is studied, from the point of view of how it impacts ekphrasis, influencing the choice of ekphrastic objects as well as its formal design. The essential relationship between time and ekphrasis is therefore investigated, with emphasis on its connection to ruins and decay. Finally, exploring the clashes between the various temporalities simultaneously called by ekphrasis allows us to identify the element of aura in the nature of ekphrastic objects. This reveals ekphrasis as a coherent system of echoes and relationships between different parts of the novel, a system which plays a crucial role in terms of the structure, the dynamic and the form of the narration
Kamal, Abderrahim. "Le Mnémotexte : essai d'une théorie du texte littéraire et de sa réception sur les "Géorgiques" de Claude Simon." Bordeaux 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989BOR30031.
Full textMichard, Aude. "Matière et formes romanesques : la représentation des lieux dans les romans de Claude Simon." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009MON30008.
Full textThe aim of the thesis is to read Claude Simon’s work through the study of space perception as it varies throughout the successive literary forms of his writings. It appears that these forms are inflected by the relationship between the subject – character, narrator or autobiographer – and the scenes of the action. Either the hero is in conflict with his own family life and the scenes where the action takes place describe the traditional background of an initiatory journey, sustaining a testimony or a social satire; or the narrator/writer throws himself into a stormy struggle against common believes and commonplaces, the library, the literary surroundings and as a final issue, his own work. When it comes to the case where Simon’s novel has to renounce its traditional ingredients, such as the story of the characters, the site becomes the main object of the show. Finally, whenever the autobiographer uses the raw material of his own experiences, the scenes of the memory linked to individual or collective history, encysted in the writer’s own body reveal themselves to be the purpose for writing
Charlin, Sophie. "Les résidus d'image : processus d'imagement dans le texte selon Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett et Henri Michaux." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082433.
Full textThis work originates in an reading experience : image effects have appeared while reading texts by Claude Simon, Samuel Beckett and Henri Michaux. To account for their inscribing in the text we produce the notion of image residue: those diminished images last as though the product of textual process. The machinic imaging process borrowed from Deleuze allows us to follow this development. The text operates a figurative material, motives (basic figurative features). The imaging process consists in connecting these motives as if in a visual editing, itself based on discontinuity and repetition. The image appears according to our authors as a feature consubstantial with writing. The analysis, distinct from poetics and rethorics theories, shows the inexhaustible aspect of imaging and the impossibility to “make the image” once and for all. The image residue therefore proves to be a plural and passing form, a sediment, a leftover or a remain
Labat, Yapaudjian Cécile. "Écriture, deuil et mélancolie dans les derniers textes de Samuel Beckett, Robert Pinget, Claude Simon." Paris 4, 2007. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=CytMS01.
Full textMourning and melancholy are central to the last texts of Samuel Beckett, Robert Pinget and Claude Simon. These authors share the same sense of disquiet about writing and its relation to the subject, its phantoms and the world. Each writer identifies writing as fundamentally deriving from a sense of loss and it is this very sense of loss that they explore, giving a form of writing characterised by an unrelieved sense of mourning and melancholy. The thesis will first establish a classification of things lost, while also identifying what it is that remains in the text, those aspects alone which the writer can count on-words and his sens of melancholy. From here the thesis will then indicate how mourning is expressed within the text, though voices, rhytms and images. Finally the thesis will explore to what extent the aesthetic of each writer can be linked to a wider, modern ethics of melancholy, founded on accepting and even demanding doubt, distance and and new tragic mode
Cammaert, Felipe. "Mémoire, représentation, fiction : l'écriture de la mémoire dans l'oeuvre d’António Lobo Antunes et de Claude Simon." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.harmatheque.com.bases-doc.univ-lorraine.fr/ebook/9782296092259.
Full textThis research is about some of the works of two major writers of the 20th century: The Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes (1942-), and the French writer Claude Simon (1913-2005). We seek to review the representation of the mnemonic order within their fictional universe, which leads to the notion of an inner mimesis. In their novels, memory appears to be a fundamental pole within fiction. Hence, we will focus our research on three main concepts: memory, representation, and fiction. From the considerations of the act of writing as a patent case of memory involving as well autobiography, one can therefore establish a theoretical category, memory writing, embodying their common approach to the art of writing. Thus, aim is to query the role of memory within both the narrator and the configuration of time. Furthermore, we analyze some of the fictional subjects (History and war, transformations of the self, the search of identity) from the point of view of the identity
Dachraoui, Sophia. "Présence et fonctionnement de l'Eternel retour dans les oeuvres littéraires du XXe siècle : Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett et Claude Simon." Strasbourg, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010STRA1031.
Full textTo demonstrate that the real and eternal creation which results from the Nietzsh’s Eternal return, this is the purpose of this research work. A meticulous comparison between Zarathoustra, la Recherche du temps perdu, Molloy and La Route des Flandres demonstrate the transition from the repetition-reproduction to the repetition-creation. Analysis also bring into play other thinkers : Hume, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Freud etc. The main question is the Gilles de Deleuze’s relecture of Nietzche’s philosophy. Actually for Deleuze the Eternal return depends of tree funding stages or tree repetitions : the return of the Same, of the Similar, then the return of the Different or Eternal return. The first two repetitions fail, because they depend from the Life drive. The repetition of the Same or Habitus which is made according to the present time, limit oneself to a stagnant and immovable life and promises no eternity. The repetition of the Fellow is made by Mnémosyne, who tries to assure eternity and join present and past. But the return of the Similar is insufficient to create : Éros becomes allied to Mnémosyne, disguises the pure past and prevents it from appearing as it is. In both cases, the death threatens the eternal vocation. Then arose the death drive or Thanatos : the time becomes an empty form which consumes past, present and allows only the return of the future creation. The creator-phoenix has to achieve its creation, die and be reborn in her. Eternal return returns from then to exclude the Same and the Similar and make the return of the Different only possible. Yet the difference is the expression of a reversal. It is the sense of " the holy YES" about which speaks Nietzsche. After the " No" to every pre-established and to any value, takes place the reversal of the " destrictive No" in a " creator YES". The Nihilism overturrns in creative assertion. Eternal return returns to all the values which he has to break to create new ones. In literature, this reversal of the models is parodic
Kahn, Olivier. "Temps verbaux, point de vue et composition dans les romans de Claude Simon : approche stylistique et génétique." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080044/document.
Full textThis thesis highlights the relations between verb tenses and textual viewpoint construction and the composition of Claude Simon’s novels as of Wind (1957).Adopting the tense systems theory and revisiting it in connection with the use of verb tenses in the author’s novels, we show how his writing challenges verb-tense systems and a narrative system historically dated with respect to a writing that breaks free from the frames that motivate them. We shall equally show that in these novels temporality and textual viewpoint construction contribute to the plasticity of the novelistic composition. The verb-tense analysis of our corpus, together with that of punctuation, syntax, enunciation, and narrative viewpoint, is articulated in keeping with the composition of the novels. The stylistic approach of all these aspects is combined with the genetic approach, in many instances allowing to explain more accurately the elaboration process of composition and style. Composition must be kept in mind if we consider the radical breaks with a dated novelistic system that lead us to shift the field of reference of the critical analysis. We might say, paraphrasing Mallarmé, that in Claude Simon’s novels, composition makes up for the absence of the traditional timeline. Just as syntax and punctuation are no longer conceived on the scale of the sentence, in Claude Simon we consider that verb tenses and the notion of viewpoint should also be analyzed on the scale of the novel and its macrostructures. This induces us to dwell particularly on the composition of two novels, The Flanders Road and Le Jardin des Plantes: by alternating present time and past time they allow to fully account for their verb-tense composition. This study, that above all concerns Claude Simon’s renewal of the literary idiom, as a consequence contributes to the renewal of the critical methodology allowing to highlight it. Starting from the stylistic and genetic study of Simon’s novels, it shows how literature incites to revise the linguistic approach to language beyond the sentence, but also how narrative poetics reopen the use of language
Créac'h, Martine. "La peinture de Poussin en partage : Claude Simon, René Char, André du Bouchet, Yves Bonnefoy et Philippe Jaccottet." Paris 8, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA082021.
Full textDonovan, Trevor. "L'attente de l'évènement historique : l'écriture de l'Histoire chez Claude Simon." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL081.
Full textThrough a selection of Claude Simon’s novels, this thesis aims to consider the historical event from an innovative point of view. In order to do so, the historical event will be analysed not as something that has already happened, but as something that is still to come. In other words, if Claude Simon writes the historical event from the writing present than the period preceding the event must also be considered in this act. As such, Claude Simon describes, more often than not, the interval before the historical event, rather than the historical event itself. However, in waiting there is also an expectation that something should happen in a certain way. And yet, expectations often lead to disappointment in Claude Simon’s novels. Based on historical representations from history books and famous paintings, a certain image of history is portrayed and subsequently deconstructed. This thesis analyses the manner in which Claude Simon develops his own vision of history based on his immediate experience of historicals events. From the French Revolution to the Second World War, Claude Simon shows us how an individual is caught up in a history that he can never fully understand. Therefore, this thesis aims to show the relationship between waiting, expecting, the historical event, the individual and writing. From a shared national history to that of one individual’s traumatic experience, this thesis underlines how much the past and the present are influenced by the notions of waiting and expectation. Hence, it is through his novels that Claude Simon shares his deception, provoked by a false conception of history, since rejected after the historical events of the 20th century
Jin, Jufang. "Histoire et fiction : une étude comparative des œuvres de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030162.
Full textClaude Simon and Yu Hua’s fictions abandon the traditional mimetic representation of reality. Their works, which reexamine the memory of events in the History of the 20th century, are not aimed at restoring the past by means of a chronology and a sequential linking of cause and effect. The personal life experiences of Claude Simon and Yu Hua led them to reflect on the value of writing in the face of the violence of the century’s disasters, and to question the validity of a so-called realist literature pretending to re-establish the order of the world which is in reality radically chaotic. The elusive and obsessional character of History requires the writer to set off in search of new forms, and to elaborate a transfiguration in his literary objectives. Thus, the chaotic or even fantastic experience of time, the obsessive figures of ancestors and the father, the excess of eroticism or blind violence, as well as all the disorders in the narration and the strangeness of the language, all come within an attempt to speak of a past which can only be evoked obliquely. The importance of History in the diegesis and in the genesis of their works refutes a certain type of criticism which identifies these works with formalism. This visceral connection between History and fiction also shows that contemporary literature, marked by a spirit of rupture, goes beyond nihilism and in its own way realizes an ethical value
Renaud, Aurélie. "L' Espagne dans la pensée de Georges Bataille, Jean Genet et Claude Simon : reprise et remaniements des stéréotypes." Paris 7, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA070113.
Full textSpain noticeably figures prominently in the works of Georges Bataille, Jean Genet and Claude Simon. It is first and foremost the object of a private experience that is both brief and intense. However, the registering of such an experience - the attempt at turning it into thought -then encounters and intersects the images through which the country has customarily been perceived for centuries. They notably turn to two traditions: the heroic mythology of the Civil War, on the one hand, the exotic and picturesque imagination that has characterised the romantic generation, on the other hand. They have patiently and carefully deconstructed such an inheritance. Yet, these stereotypes are not cast away altogether as deceitful conceptions. They are much rather exhibited, taken up, displaced. Hence, in the works of the three authors that are of concern here and despite everything that might distinguish them otherwise, the elaboration of a new Spain, at once recognizable and unrecognizable. A strong alterity springs forth from a conventional alterity, and myth emerges from stereotypes. Indeed Spain eventually opens onto the truth which matters to them and which stands at the core of their respective thought: an anthropological truth in the cases of Simon and Bataille, an intimate truth in the case of Genet. Che aut
Lucas-Leclin, Emilie. "L'ouverture de l'image dans les oeuvres de Claude Simon, Peter Handke et Richard Powers." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030184/document.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to analyse the ‘opening’ power of the image in narrative texts written after the 1980s : Claude Simon’s Le Jardin des Plantes, Peter Handke’s Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht and Der Bildverlust, and Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. The category of the visual, as articulated by Georges Didi-Huberman, has allowed us to question the image from the vantage point of its power to rend open ‘visible certainty’: as a work of the between and of the other, the image disrupts the distinction between seeing and knowing, visible and invisible, actual and virtual. We have related this principle of disruption proper to the image to a double movement : on the one hand, a strategy aiming to dissociate thought and reality in order to reveal the idiocy of a real without reason ; on the other, the unstable dynamic of a psychic economy entailing a dialectic of mourning and desire, of the anxiety of loss and the opening onto the virtuality of the possible. Absence, the originary source of the image, is the motor of this tension between melancholic retention and desiring protention. The image thus harbours a temporal paradox : memory of a past that will not pass and returns to haunt the present, the image also generates a paradoxical ‘memory of the present’. It is within this discordance between two possible images of a time yet-to-come (one haunted by historical catastrophe, the other seeking to reopen the space of the present as a site of historical agency and action) that a ‘politics of aesthetic form’ can be sketched : an internally divided form founded on the refusal to close the debate between catastrophe and promise
Ferrato-Combe, Brigitte. "Écriture et peinture chez Claude Simon : fonction de la description de tableau dans le roman." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040133.
Full textThe meditation upon art is essential to Claude Simon's poetics as a novelist, for whom painting is a mirror of writing some of his novels, founded on commentaries about painting intimely linked with fiction, are akin to the literary genre of essay. Describing pictures seems to be a dominant stylistic feature of such a dialogue between genres. Claude Simon's novels renew some pictural "topoi" – the painter as a character, his workshop, museums or galleries of portraits, from which surge an imaginary world. Beyond the subject of these novels, pictures - by Uccello, Poussin, David, as well as by Renoir, Bacon, Rauschenberg generate fiction through descriptions. Further more, Claude Simon composes his works as a painter, since he uses the technique of sticking or challenges the dynamic composition of baroque polyptics. Painting is not only a metaphor or a model of writing, but its principale
Michel, Christian. "Pensée analogique et poétique du roman chez H. H. Jahnn, W. Faulkner et Cl. Silon : Perrudja, The Wild palms, Orion aveugle, Les Corps conducteurs, Triptyque, Leçon de choses." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030089.
Full textThis study is concerned with the inscriptions of analogy found in the following novels : Perrudja and Perrudja 2 (1929/1958) by Hanns Henny Jahnn, The Wild Palms (1939) by William Faulkner, Orion aveugle (1970), Les corps conducteurs (1971), Triptyque (1973) and Leçon de choses (1975) by Claude Simon. Defined both as figure of thought and as poetic principle, analogy casts a new light on the composition of the novels, on their ways of connecting independent and unrelated narratives. The study of the transition loci helps elucidate four different configurations (fissure, syncinesy, gathering, uncoupling) which are generic and paradigmatic. It is then possible to specify what their effects on the structures of the narratives are and to make sense of their interrelations. These four distinct forms also represent three stages in a development (association, confusion, irruption) which happen to coincide, term by term, with those identified by the classical tradition (namely Aristotle) as part of analogical reasoning : proportion, analysis of likenesses and differences, transgression and invention. The analogical transference thus defines a new object, the analogical novel with its specific characteristics, both aesthetic and logical. The analogical novel makes sense in terms of a logic which is no longer, or not only, that of classical rationality. The analogical dynamic of meaning, which knows neither contradiction nor time, partakes of primary processes (Freud) : it erases discontinuities and restores narcissistic a-separation. However, the restoration of continuity comes second and analogy acknowledges and makes sense of primary discontinuities. Novelistic analogy is, thus, less a means of restoring the mythical state of undifferentiation typical of primary narcissism than a means of expressing nostalgia for it
Py, Jean-François. "L'expérience de l'histoire et la vérité en peinture : avec Claude Simon, François Rouan, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke et Martin Kippenberger." Saint-Etienne, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000STET2067.
Full textSarfati, Lanter Judith. "Donner forme au sensible. La perception dans l'oeuvre de Peter Handke, Malcolm Lowry et Claude Simon." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030138.
Full textA central issue in the work of Peter Handke, Malcolm Lowry and Claude Simon, perception, in the way it works on and modifies writing, demonstrates a particular way of being-in-the-world, understood not only as a phenomenological link to the world but also as a singular adjustment to a collective universe. The way in which the consciousness receives phenomena, visualises them and attempts to control them, through reasoning and imagination, naturally raises the question of their interpretation and a possible role of the perceptible. The study of perception thus makes it possible to question the connection between the poetics, aesthetics and politics, aside from the indications the writers themselves have often provided to help critics tackle their works. An analysis of the different ways in which phenomena appear to the consciousness, particularly the treatment of fragmented, proliferating sensations, provides an initial glimpse into the existential implications of the perceptive process. Next it brings to light the tension that runs through the works in the corpus between aesthetic forms aiming to synthesise and harmonise the diversity of the perceptible, and forms that, on the contrary, maintain its power to suddenly appear and destabilise. Lastly, we show how the interpretation of phenomena, by taking into account a possible integration of the perceptible into the intelligible or, on the contrary, by highlighting their irreducibility, expresses certain modes of adjustment to what is common; in other words, how perceptible forms also appear as forms of community
Parent, Sabrina. ""Poéthiques" de l'événement : dans les œuvres de Claude Simon, Jean Rouaud, Jean Follain, Jacques Réda, François Jacqmin et Eugène Savitzkaya." Toulouse 2, 2006. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/garnier?filename=sptMS01.
Full textAlthough our study does not reject a narrative perspective on the event, it claims that a literary approach to the event should not be limited to that angle. The concept of event is therefore considered in the extended field of human sciences (historiography, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, etc. ) in order to gather tools to better capture its specificities in literary texts. The questions regarding the writing of events –historical or natural– are asked in both poetic and narrative texts : what is considered to be an event for a novelist (Simon, Rouaud, Savitzkaya) or a poet (Follain, Réda, Jacqmin) ? What are the linguistic means our authors resort to in order to write those events ? How can literary works reflect the author's vision of the world and how can they be ethically interpreted ? Our ultimate goal is indeed to give an ethical interpretation to our authors' works, a " poethics " (Pinson)