Abstract EN:

How does the narrative text stimulate imagination and thought ? This is the question we pose about Stendhal. We propose general categories to describe the images conjured up by a text, a reflexion upon their nature of signs, a description of the operations which determine their emergence. These propositions are founded upon a critical reading of the contributions of phenomenology and its critical offspring. We tackle the question of the make-think quality of the narrative by summoning the notions of symbolisation and interpretation, at the junction of psychoanalysis and poetics. The author is defined as the prime interpreter of the work, and we analyse reading as an answer to his interpretation. We insist on the heterogeneity of the stendhalian corpus. A study deals with the imaginary performance of the operations focusing on time in the stendhalian narrative. A second one shows the diversity of the seething universe Stendhal creates. Two others specifically deal with Armance and Le Rouge