Abstract EN:

"the subject of this study is le ravissement de lol v. Stein. Two different methods are used : first an approach in terms of poetics, then an attempt at freudian interpretation. The results of this analysis are set against the patterns to be found in famous french novels. The relation between story and discourse is characterized by the following trait : at the macro-level the story follows a chronological line with an internal frame of reference (chapter i) ; the writing technique has two ways of announcing the future development of the story (chapter 2), and makes allusions to its own past according to a specific mode of flashback (chapter 3) ; chronological verisimilitude is not always respected (chapter 4) ; the variations of rhythm between discourse and story invite to an interpretation of the narrative (chapter 5) (first part). In this novel the first-person narration offers a number of character ristics : several types of narration follow each other (posterior, poster rior-enigmatic, posterior with simultaneous narration effect) (chapter i). The narrator adopts three different attitudes towards the story (absent, witness, hero). He works like a novelist, combining interpretation, invention and aesthetic purpose (chapter 2). He presents the motivations for his becoming a narrator (rivalry and mimetic identification) and the origin of the various types of material he uses (chapter 3) (second part). The meaning which the narrator himself gives to his narrative is implicitly founded on a psychological theory (chapter i) ; moreover the text carries a number of networks external to the logic of the narrative ; the two areas of meaning which have been discovered are representation (performance representation) and transgression (chapter 2) (third part). In our conclusion we find three patterns at work in le ravisse ment de lol v. Stein : the psychological novel, the detective novel and the narrative based on psychoanalytical cases".