Poétique du chemin dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Jean Giono
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Abstract EN:
The "path" is a descriptive and narrative motif in the works of jean giono, the novelist. It appears as a key organic element that lays out the landscape as well as the representation processes of fiction. What's more the description of a path may be regarded as the relation of a progression thus permitting to embrace both the space described and the setting up of the plot. Together with the descriptive text, the description of a path conveys the pleasure of the narrative voice and the infinite possibilities that fiction offers to writer and reader alike. Therefore, with jean giono the relation of a progression also stands for the birth certificate of fiction as the discourse of a virtuoso narrator heedful of the responses of a reader who is intrinsically "other" yet always a companion.
Abstract FR:
Le "chemin" est un motif descriptif et narratif dans l'oeuvre romanesque de jean giono. Il organise le paysage et les processus de la representation dans la fiction. Mais la description d'un chemin est aussi le recit d'un cheminement : elle permet de maitriser a la fois l'espace decrit et la mise en intrique. Elle fait entendre, en meme temps que le texte descriptif , le plaisir de la voix narratrice et les possibilites infinies offertes par la fiction a l'ecrivain et au lecteur. Le recit d'un cheminement represente ainsi, chez jean giono, l'acte de naissance de la fiction : discours de narrateur virtuose, attentif aux reponses d'un lecteur totalement autre, mais toujours complice.