thesis

Montherlant essayiste : tradition greco-latine et modernite

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1995

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Institution:

Montpellier 3

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Literature

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Abstract EN:

Montherlant's essays bring together a great variety of texts. Their content brings to light the multiple influences on the author. From greek and latin antiquity to modernity montherlant unites diferent ideologies in broad-minded but disillusioned syncretism. Determined to exhaust life by alternation, his work, especially the carnets, reveals a writer infatuated with the absolute and desdainful of a world he judged to be tooinhuman.

Abstract FR:

Les essai de montherlant rassembment de nombreux textes differents. Leur contenu revele la grande multiplicite des influences subies par leur auteur. De l'antiquite greco-latine a la moderniten, montherlant fusionne des ideologies differentes en un syncretisme genereux mais desillusionne. Decide a epuiser la vie par l'alternance, ses ecrits, en particulier les carnets, denotent un ecrivain epris d'absolu et dedaigneux d'un monde juge trop humain.