Marcel pagnol : la plume et le masque
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Abstract EN:
Marcel pagiiol wellknown and also unknown has so many identities : dramatist, film-maker, novelist, adapter, essayist, screen-writer, translator but also mathematician, mechanic, inventor, engineer, geologist, doctor. Concerning pagnol everything seems to be organized as if the establishment of an identity would have to go through numerous identities. He is a character in a never-ending and continuous mobility. It all began with the death of his mother when pagnol was fifteen. From that day on, pagnol drowned in a never ending movement which aim was to overshadow the best he could the unbearable loss and in the same time the unbearable stillness, the unbearable immobility of death. From that time on it will be impossible to miss mobility concerning the structure of his work fitting in with genelogical dynamism, as well as the reference, the repetition, the affiliation according to his theories on laughter leading to mobility in writing, according to his obsessional curiosity. Pagnol constantly established his ethics witli mobility and dynamism. However this pagnol with numerous identities, this scattered pagnol will succeed in extremis in his ultimate work "le secret du masque de fer" where behind a very common historical quest, there is a ten-years-work on unveiling his own character. This work is, therefore, organized as a freeing psychoanalyse leading pagnol to drop his own mask.
Abstract FR:
Marcel pagnol, si connu et si inconnu. Marcel pagnol aux multiples identites : dramaturge, cineaste, romancier, adaptateur, essayiste, dialoguiste, traducteur mais aussi mathematicien, mecanicien, inventeur, ingenieur, geologue et medecin. Chez pagnol tout semble s'organiser comme si l'instauration d'une identite se devait de passer par la multiplicite des identites. Personnage en perpetuelle mouvance, en constante mobilite. Tout aura commence par le deces de la mere lorsque pagnol avait quinze ans. A partir de ce jour, pagnol s'etourdira dans une sorte de mouvement perpetuel dont le but sera d'occulter au mieux l'inconsolable perte mais dans le meme temps l'insupportable immobilite, l'insoutenable statisme de la mort. Desormais chez pagnol on ne pourra plus faire l'impasse sur la mobilite, et que ce soit par la structure de son oeuvre qui s'inscrit dans le dynamisme genealogique de la reference, de la repetition et de l'affiliation, par ses theories sur le rire considere comme la mobilite de l'ecriture ou par son obsessionnelle curiosite, pagnol instaurera constamment la mobilite et le dynamisme en veritable ethique. Toutefois, ce pagnol aux multiples identites, ce pagnol disperse reussira in extremis a s'y retrouver dans son oeuvre ultime : le secret du masque de fer, ou, derriere une banale enquete historique s'inscrira enfin, par un travail de dix ans sur un demasquage, le demasquage de son propre personnage. Oeuvre qui s'organisera au bout du compte comme une psychanalyse liberatrice ou pagnol, enfin retrouve, tombera lui-meme son propre masque.