Abstract EN:

The thesis deals with Georges-Emmanuel Clancier's creative process, which oscillates between poetry and fiction. His critical writings will be examined first, with the way he challenges the poetry fiction dichotomy established by the development of french literature since the beginning of the XIXth century. Then, the way his personal themes come to life in poetry and fiction as well as the way they inform those two genres will be analyzed. The study of the memory of legends and of the haunted self shows that poetic creation originates in fiction-writing, which also strengthens a multifaceted lyricism. The painting of society occupies an essential part of the novels leaning towards "poetic realism". When it faces the tragedies of history, poetry becomes a scream of indignation or a wave of hope. The dynamic principle of G. -E. Clancier's writings rests on a promise that gives the destiny of the fictional characters as well as the questioning that generates the poem their particular approach. The writing has a saving function : language is held in check in the novels, which capture the rhythm of human life, whereas poetic writing, poised between the two illuminating images of narcissus and orpheus, plunges into the adventure of language and the exploration of silence, using multiple devices, ranging from a type of lyricism tinged with the poetics of uncertainty to the playful use of creative constraints.