L'oeuvre romanesque de jean-paul sartre. La banalite, l'ennui, l'angoisse
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Abstract EN:
Banality, boredom, and anxiety in sartre's novels constitute the immediate givens of a literary structure employed by the author for the expression of his ideas and his metaphysical insights. These novels challenge bourgeois values through banalization, and are based on : - a vulgar, vulgarizing language; - simple, amorphous characters; - and emotions that are muted and stiffled. Boredom constitutes the only possible response for the characters when confronting this monotonous world. They are indifferent to material and even to "spiritual" values, and live on in inertia and oblivion. In a context of absolute absurdity, boredom continuously brings them up against their own inner being severed forever from everyday life, and it is gradually transformed into a profound and infinite anxiety : their miserable awareness of the insurmountable absurdity of existence. But the solitude in which they find their ultimate refuge also imprisons them in the same anxiety; the same boredom in response to the same banality.
Abstract FR:
La banalite, l'ennui et l'angoisse dans l'oeuvre romanesque de sartre sont les donnees immediates de la structure litteraire a laquelle l'auteur a recours pour exprimer ses idees et ses reflexions metaphysiques. Ces romans qui elevent un defi aux valeurs bourgeoises - en les banalisant - se sont fondes sur : - un langage vulgarise, vulgarisant; - des personnages simples et amorphes; - des emotions eclipsees, etc. . . Face a ce monde monotone, l'ennui constitue chez les personnages la seule issue; indifferents, donc, aux valeurs materielles et meme"spirituelles", ils continuent a vivre dans l'inertie et l'oubli. Cet ennui qui, dans l'absurdite totale, ne finit guere de presenter devant eux leur etre detache a jamais de la vie quotidienne se mue progressivement en une angoisse profonde et infinie : c'est leur conscience malheureuse marquee par l'absurdite indepassable de l'existence. La solitude qui devient finalement leur refuge ne cesse de son cote, de les enfermer dans cette meme angoisse, ce meme ennui et face a la meme banalite.