Abstract EN:

On the threshold of the xx the century, at a time when great upheavals unleashed a violent identity crisis, jules renard was a writer who failed to satisfy his urge to express his thoughts either in fiction writing or in drama, let alone in poetry. None of these forms really matched his inspiration and changes of mood. In searching for his own inner being and meaning, jules renard adopted the everyday writing of an intimate diary in order to be able to respond to this desire to express reality in its infinitely varied and relative forms. In order to write down facts and thoughts day by day, he had a preference for a brief and discontinuous type of writing : the aphorism. For a lover of reality who always mistrusted +ill-acquired ; words and syntax, the aphoristic style, coated in silence and crystallised in meaning was the best medium for the expression of his conscience and thoughts. The aphorism reflects the structure of truth for it is the kind of writing which, as he put it, +interprets ; the least. Through his posthumous + journal; this work demonstrates how this shrewd observer, this temperamental and humorous man gradually became a creator of + silent literature ;, the embodiment of the aphoristic writer, through his promptitude, his negative dialectics, his refusal of systematic thinking, his critical and pessimistic mind, his subjective and paradoxical expression, where harshness and grace are merged and where a terse, lapidary style is made compatible with a clarity and simplicity of expression