Abstract EN:

One of the main subjects in my thesis is the quest of identity through the mirror - an identity that aragon is inclined to confuse with god'one. This mirror is perhaps the woman. In short, aragon braves the "mirrors-things" so as to find this famous "mirror in which you don't see yourself but her" ("miroir ou tu ne te vois point mais elle"), as it is said in le fou d'elsa : so that this work looks like the mirror of all the mirrors reflecting aragon's works. I tried to developp in my work that other thing beyond elsa, an invisible thing, which aragon is speaking about in his entretiens avec francis cremieux : that is this philosophy of life he wanted to expain in le fou. In this work the parabolic mirror is endowed with a high symbolic power, it reprresents the attribues which are the woman's own, but also the instrument in which all the life's and death's sorrows meet and this strange love too : it goes through the poem and originates from an old arabic legend, majnun layla in the eighth century.