"Dans ce château magique du dire et du taire" : création et crise chez Aragon
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Abstract EN:
This dissertation presents an innovative approach to the processes of creation in aragon's works, incorporating both psychoanalytical theory and the principal of "genetics" (a particular type of textual analysis of the manuscript). Following a genetics-based study of the manuscripts in the "fonds aragon" collection of the cnrs (the national center of scientific research in france) which orients the reader toward an aesthetics of the published work, this study focuses on aragon's prose of the fourties and his poetry from the fifties. This choice locates a personal as well as political and historical crisis (at the crossroads of two periods in the writer's career) which induces a transformation of the conditions of creation. Aragon stops publishing; this period the links the provides a veritable metamorphosis in his writing. The links the author establishes in his works shed light on what has supposedly come to be known as an aragonian specificity : the absence of a "beginning" in his writing and conscious, deliberate strategies that determine processes of invention and composition. The inaugural genetics-based study makes it possible to interrogate the actual role and existence of the "incipit", a legend invented by aragon in which he locates a process of creation. An analysis of a childhood story reveals an essential trauma and an impulsive dynamic which produce self-reflective discourse that both reveals and masks its own mechanisms. By leaving his and elsa triolet's manuscripts to france in his will, aragon invited the critical exploration of his works that he began himself. This study challenges the premices established by the author, one of the most noteworthy literary and political
Abstract FR:
Cette these propose une approche neuve de la creation aragonienne par une reflexion qui s'appuie essentiellement sur la genetique et la theorie psychanalytique. Apres une observation genetique transversale de l'ensemble du fonds aragon du cnrs (qui etablit l'esthetique du produit fini), l'etude se concentre principalement sur la prose des annees quarante et la poesie des annees cinquante. Le choix de ce corpus est fonction de la crise, personnelle autant politique et historique (a la jonction de deux periodes de la carriere de l'ecrivain) qui transforme la situation productive et se manifeste par une interruption de la publication, puis voit surgir une metamorphose. Les rapprochements effectues d'une oeuvre a l'autre, appuyes sur des temoignages de familiers de l'ecrivain mettent en lumiere des particularites aragoniennes telles que l'absence des debuts d'ecriture, les moyens d'invention et de composition perfectionnes qui s'appuient sur une strategie consciente et visent l'efficacite. L'examen des dossiers genetiques conduit a remettre en question le role de l'incipit, legende de la generation, inventee par aragon sur son ecriture. A partir de l'analyse d'une juvenilia on repere le drame existentiel et la dynamique pulsionnelle de la creation d'un auteur, qui va entourer son oeuvre d'une discours qui en devoile et en masque les mecanismes. En appliquant au realiste aragon son propre programme, cette premiere synthese de la genese aragonienne a donc accepte l'invitation lancee, sous forme de defi, a la recherche par aragon lorsque cet ecrivain, l'un des principaux protagonistes des aventures litteraires et politiques de ce siecle remit ses papiers et ceux d'elsa triolet a la nation francaise.