Texte remanié de: Th.D.--Murcia--Universidad, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 143-159.

Mémoire (M.A.) - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2000. / Bibliogr.: f. 166-178.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Also available in print.

Th.--Lett.--Paris 8, 1988.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Nous avons opté pour l’étude du vide et du nihilisme dans l’œuvre de Maurice Blanchot, un écrivain-penseur qui suscite actuellement un intérêt grandissant tant en France qu’à l’étranger. En effet, notre présente étude recouvre une période très riche de mutations politiques, historiques, économiques, sociales, culturelles s’étendant de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle jusqu’à la fin de ce qu’on appelle l’époque postmoderne. Au sein de ces mutations qui ont marqué l’histoire de l’Occident à cette époque, l’homme occidental se trouve en crise, étonné, choqué par ce désordre qui commence à s’infiltrer dans sa vie, il a recours à l’enfermement et à la solitude pour pouvoir oublier ce drame qui a déjà pris part dans sa vie personnelle, il est soumis devant le vide qui l’écrase et le nihilisme qui n’hésite pas à porter atteinte à sa quiétude. Il commence alors à ressentir un vide existentiel qui le mène à poser des questions infinies : pourquoi suis-je là ? À quoi sert ma vie ? Pourquoi vivre alors que la mort nous attend à la fin et que la vie ne vaut pas la peine d’être vécue ? La scène se révèle tragique et la vie renvoie alors à l’inanité et à l’absurdité. / We chose the study of the void and the nihilism in the writing of Maurice Blanchot, a writer-thinker who currently arouses an interest growing both in France and abroad. Indeed, our present study covers a very rich period with political, historical, economic, social and cultural changes extending from the second half of the XIXth century until the end of the postmodern time. In order to be able to analyze the presence of the nihilism and the void in the novels and the accounts of Maurice Blanchot, our research will be related to the prints of modernity in its writs as well as the questioning of the author by some of his contemporaries (writers or philosophers) and its engagement to the cultural and political life of its time. Within these changes, which marked the western history that time, the Western man was in crisis, astonished, shocked by this disorder which started to infiltrate during this period, it led to insulation and loneliness that to forget the drama which already took a share in his personal life, it had been subjected, in front of the void, which crushed it, and the nihilism which didn’t not hesitate to carry reached to its quietude. Then, it started to feel existential empty, which carries out to raise infinite questions: why am I there? For what is used my life? Why live whereas death waits us at the end and until the life is not worth the sorrow to be lived? The scene appears tragic and the life returns then to the inanity and the nonsense.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 2, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-219) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.