L'espace dans "Les chemins de la liberté" de Jean-Paul Sartre
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Abstract EN:
Space in the roads to freedom does not only coincide with what is happening before us at every moment. Since the function of the novel is to convey the author's view of life, according to sartre, everything is devised in the trilogy, in order that represented space in each of the narratives reflects the real world which is aimed at by the work of fiction. Yet, at the same time, this space corresponds to the specific reality of the fictitious world built up in each volume. Sartrian space is constructed by various processes, and at different levels of the narrative. It is inseparable from the other elements of the novel, - from the characters mainly -, from which it derives its numerous features, and on which it sheds light in return. The meanings arising from the represented space are precisely those which are carried by each narrative in its entirety, by style, composition and content.
Abstract FR:
L'espace des chemins de la liberte ne coincide pas seulement avec ce qui se deroule sous nos yeux a chaque instant. La fonction du roman etant de communiquer la vision du monde de l'auteur, selon sartre, tout est etudie dans l'ensemble de la trilogie pour que l'espace represente dans chacun des recits reflete le monde reel vise par l'oeuvre. Or, en meme temps, cet espace correspond a la realite specifique du monde invente signifiee dans chaque volume. L'espace sartrien est construit par des procedes divers et a des niveaux differents du recit. Il est indissociable des autres donnees de l'oeuvre, - des personnages, plus particulierement -, desquelles il recoit ses nombreuses determinations, et qu'il eclaire reciproquement. Les significations qui se degagent de l'espace represente sont celles-la memes qui sont colportees par l'ensemble de chaque recit, dans l'expression, la composition et le contenu.