Abstract EN:

After a brief survey on the frequency of the word "death" in georges bataille's work (including prose and poetry), and on the mortal condition of his heroes, this thesis attempts to define the relationships between death and the possible (the hegelian actual reality) and the impossible. The impossible is called death by the end of the first part. It is defined as the presence, in existence, of death itself and of the erotic experience. This double presence is then analysed in the second part, in relation to representation (a description of the fictional existence of the hero), and from a double point of view : the elaboration of a specific narrative construction, starting with the narrative and leading up to the concept of the "book" of death, and the creation of a typology designing the "doomed-todie-character" (his exit out of the possible thanks to eroticism and suicide). The third part of this thesis deals with the relationships of georges bataille's writing and death according to what was called the death of the writer, with a description of the possible role of the experience of death itself traced in bataille's own autobiography, as it could be deciphered throughout his work. But the main point will be about the reflexion of the writer on the power of literature over death. After analysing his theory on poetics (writing in the face of dying), the practical application of the theory is then tackled. His writing is seen as mimetic of the destructive process of death, as he dramatizes through movement the literary enactement of death; and the silence of death is literary present in the text trough the numerous repetitions and blanks. As a conclusion georges bataille will then be part into perspective with the contemporary reflexion on death.