Le temps dans le théâtre d'Henry Bernstein
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Abstract EN:
Notre travail a pour but d'eclaircir la coherence interne des drames de bernstein, qui tient avant tout au genie de l'agencement temporel du texte. D'abord, dans ses premieres pieces qu'on appelle "tragedies bourgeoises", les pieces qui peignent la crise breve et violente, on retient le croisement des deux temporalites complementaires : l'une vers la crise imminente, l'autre vers le souvenir profond. Puis, dans les pieces de la "nouvelle maniere", l'epaisseur temporelle associee au regard vers l'interiorite des personnages engendre une autre temporalite, caracterisee par le statisme des moments iteratifs. Nous avons reconstruit les experiences temporelles fictives que pro-pose le texte, autour des deux axes: evenements-germes qui fonctionnent comme souvenirs-ecrans et evenements d'ailleurs, comme mis entre parentheses, qui se donnent comme espace voile de l'interiorite. Comme la configuration narrative sert de support a l'experience fictive du temps, notre interpretation du temps refigure va s'ancrer dans la forme signifiante du recit.
Abstract FR:
THE OBJECT OF OUR research IS TO RECONSTRUCT THE INNER COHERENCE OF HENRY BERNSTEIN'S PLAYS THROUGHAN ANALYSIS OF THEIR TEMPORAL STRUCTURE. AT FIRST, IN HIS EARLY PLAYS, SOCALLED "TRAGEDIES BOURGEOIS", IN WHICH THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES MOSTLY THE BRIEF AND VIOLENT CRISIS OF THE PERSONS, WE COULD HOLD AN INTERSECTION OF TWO TEMPORALITIES COMPLEMENTARY CONFIGURATED BY THE NARRATION: ONE, TOWARDS THE IMMINENT CRISIS, THE OTHER, TOWARDS THE PROFOUND SOUVENIR. AND THEN, IN THE PLAYS OF THE "NOUVELLE MANIERE", WE CAN SEE THAT THE TEMPORAL DEPTH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE EYES CAST IN THE DIRECTION OF PERSON'S INTERIORITY, PRODUCES ANOTHER TEMPORALITY CHARACTERIZED BY THE STATIC OF THE ITERATIVE MOMENTS. WE HAVE RECOSTRUCTED THE FICTIOUS TEMPORAL EXPERIENCES CONFIGURATED IN THE TEXT AROUND TWO AXIS: THE GERM-EVENTS (EVENEMENTS-GERMES) WHICH WORK AS "SOUVENIR-ECRAN" AND THE MOREOVER-EVENTS (EVENEMENT D'AILLEURS) WORKING AS HIDDEN SPACE OF THE INTERIORITY PUT IN THE PARENTHESES. SEEING THAT THE READERS' FICTIOUS TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE IS DUE TO THE NARRATIVE CONFIGURATION OF THE TEXT, WE ARE TO ANCHOR THE ANALYSIS IN THE NARRATION FORM REGARDED AS THE SIGNIFIANT FORME. REFUSING TO BE ENCLOSED IN THE RIGOROUS STRUCTURALISM, WE WILL TRY TO BRING THE IMMANENT TIME OF THE TEXT INTO THE TRANSCENDENT TIME POF THE EXTRA-TEXT. THAT WOULD BE AT LAST THE RIFUGURATED TIME IN HENRY BERNSTEIN'S DRAMA.