Crime et culpabilite dans quelques recits de joseph conrad
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Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008)Disciplines:
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Abstract EN:
The theme of crime and guilt is central in conrad's literary work. His thorough psychological-like studies of characters responding to particular situations rest on a deep awareness of some phenomena concerning the human psyche. He very soon had an intuitive perception of what was to become the area of investigation of modern psychoanalysts. Though with quite a different motivation, he analyses the obscure and hidden part of the ego torn between the evaluation of one's own acts and one's own profound motives. Such an insight into human suffering is generated by an appalling personal experience. Suffering left its mark on him, as it did on byron and dickens and haunted him wherever he went, over seas, oceans and continents. The burden of his heritage became oppressing when he began to write, and because of his writing in a foreign language he was accused of desertion. Conrad's art finds its impetus in the evil he experienced or imagined but the artistic beauty of his work goes beyond the varied episodes of his restless life.
Abstract FR:
Le theme du crime et de la culpabilite dans les recits de conrad occupe une place centrale dans son oeuvre. Les etudes psychologiques approfondies d'etres conscients dans des situations particulieres s'appuient sur une maitrise claire des donnees qui affectent la quietude humaine. Conrad soupconne tres tot l'equivalent des curiosites et des formules que la psychanalyse vulgarise plus tard. Bien que dans une intention toute differente, il decrit les dessous obscurs et complexes du moi partage par le jugement de ses actes et par ses motivations intimes. En toile de fond a ce bouillonnement d'idees et de symboles, un passe familial et personnel desolant. Comme byron et dickens, conrad est marque d'une blessure dont il promene la douleur a travers mers, oceans et continents. La blessure se ravive au moment ou, par la plume il reflechit, et ou a cause de la plume, il est accuse de trahison. L'art de conrad trouve son levain dans le mal subi ou imagine mais la beaute artistique va au-dela de la reverberation romanesque des episodes disparates d'une existence troublee.