Abstract EN:

Our analysis of the concept of charactor, in faulkner's three novels (as y lay dying, the solind and the fury, absolom, absalom|), focuses on its double nature. It is viewed as a cluster of linguistic signs and at the same time as fictionnal creative, but endowed with a psychological depth. The narrative form of faulkner's novels is a fundamental key in the identification of his characters. A fragmented discourse, which consists of monologues and a profusion of narrators, is a basic attribute of the faulknerian character. Three main themes help shape the characters identity persersion, introversion ans isolation the major character in faulkner's fiction functions as the narrators' focal point and at the some lime plays the role of an evanescent subject, who resists to the nattators' never-ending attelmpts to fix and come le grips with "realitif" the tragic, as a literary mode, is a distinctive feature of fautkner's writing. The death of thomas sutpen, the compsons' decadence and the poundrens' awarerress of the futility of their existence are narrative incidents which give faulkener's writing a tragic imprint.