Realite et symbole dans l'oeuvre de gerard de nerval : la recherche des formes dans le recit nervalien
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Abstract EN:
Nerval deliberately made his profession as a man of letters, which he carried on with full awareness, toward a type of narrative that would enable him to express his own personality. This quest becomes relevant through the different forms of the narratives he tested (he went through all the possibilities they offered and blurred the boarder between them), through a dual shift that lead to both the unicity of the condensed narrative and the make up of various units that combine former works, and through the slow and difficult conquest on a inventive autobiographical way of writing. Through his technical novelties, nerval can be considered as one of the fore-runners to most updated studies on the narrative.
Abstract FR:
Nerval a choisi consciemment la profession d'homme de lettres et l'a exercee avec lucidite, poursuivant une forme de recit qui lui permette d'exprimer sa personnalite. Cette recherche se manifeste par l'essai de differents genres dont il exploite les possibilites et estompe les frontieres, par un double mouvement vers l'unicite d'un recit concentre et vers la constitution d'ensembles qui combinent de maniere variable des oeuvres anterieures, par la conquete lente et difficile d'une forme autobiographique originale. Ses innovations techniques font de nerval l'un des precurseurs des recherches les plus modernes sur le recit.