Francois mauriac sous le regard de jean-paul sartre
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Abstract EN:
In his article "m. Francois mauriac et la liberte" (m. Francois mauriac and freedom), published in the nouvelle revue francaise on 1 february 1939, jean-paul sartre, as a joung writer, attacked francois mauriac's concept of the novel. Sartre's criticismof mauriac is examined and the points of view adopted by sartre and mauriac on the latter's novel la fin de la nuit (the end of the night) are then analysed. The analysis demonstrates that the critic and the novalist were defending different ethical codes and consequently different aesthetic positions. By examining the meaning of mauriac's concept of the novel in the light of his personal view of the world, it is possible to establish the limitations of sartres' criticism and to show also the limits of his influenceon mauriac as a novelist.
Abstract FR:
S'opposant a la conception romanesque de francois mauriac, un jeune ecrivain, jean-paul sartre, fait paraitre le 1er fevrier 1939 dans la nouvelle revue francaise un article s'intitulant "m. Francois mauriac et la liberte". Apres avoir presente la critique de sartre, l'analyse du double point de vue de mauriac et de sartre sur le roman mauriacien, la fin de la nuit, montre que le critique et le romancier defendent une ethiqueet, par consequent, une esthetique differentes. Enfin, la mise en lumiere du sns veritable de la conception romanesque de mauriac, en fonction de sa vision personnelle du monde, permet de cerner les limites de la validite de la critique sartienne et de son influence sur le romancier francois mauriac.