Esthetique romanesque de gustave le rouge
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Abstract EN:
Little is known about gustave le rouge as a man, thanks to the testimonies of some of his friends, yet, we know that his personality was as eminent as fascinating. Now, we may wonder why such a man, throughout his life as an author, limited himself to producing works dealing with a literary field which, at first sight, is not in accordance with qualities that should have led him to the great genres. The purpose of this thesis consists in trying to elucidate the mistery according to which that well of knowledge and intelligence that is presented by his friend, only wrote popular novels. This thesis tries to define what the author thinks is a "beautiful novel", describes the way that novel is made, the relation to the public, to writing, on which its existence rests, in order to check if, actually, gustave le rouge really is, as you may suppose in the first place, an author whose novelistic bibliography goes counter to his biography. Eventually, it can't but state that gustave le rouge does not put aside his ideological, poetical, scientific dispositions, by electing the popular novel, but makes of it the best tool for conveying the manifestations of those dispositions.
Abstract FR:
De l'homme gustave le rouge, l'on sait fort peu de choses, grace aux temoignages de certains de ses amis, l'on sait cependant qu'il s'agissait d'une personnalite aussi eminente que fascinante. Or, d'un tel homme, l'on peut se demander pourquoi, tout au long de sa vie d'auteur, il s'est somme toute cantonne dans la production d'oeuvres ressortissant a un domaine litteraire peu en accord, a priori, avec des dispositions qui eussent du l'entrainer vers les grands genres. Tout le travail de l'etude proposee consiste en une tentative d'elucidation du mystere que constitue l'obstination du puits de culture et d'intelligence presente par ses intimes a n'ecrire que des romans populaires. Elle s'essaie a une definition de ce qu'est pour l'auteur, un "beau roman", decrit les modes de fabrication d'un tel roman, le rapport au public, a l'ecriture que suppose son existence, afin de verifier si, veritablement, gustave le rouge est bien, comme l'on peut le presupposer, un auteur dont la bibliographie romanesque contredit la biographie. Elle est amenee a constater, au final, que loin de se brider, de faire litiere de ses dispositions ideologiques, poetiques, scientifiques en elisant le roman populaire, le rouge en fait le plus sur vehicule des temoignages de ses dispositions.