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This Master's thesis proposes to examine the place of space in five works by Andre Breton which are: Nadja (1928); Les Vases communicants (1932); L'Amour fou (1937); Arcane 17 (1945); Martinique charmeuse de serpents (1948). The first chapter of this thesis deals with the problem of space and its definitions through a sequence of seven authors who propose different perspectives. The second chapter explores the literary, the imaginary and the textual spaces in the aforementionned works while taking into account numerous surrealist concepts proposed by Breton.

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Ce mémoire a pour sujet d’étude Le surréalisme et la peinture d’André Breton. Nous cherchons à montrer de quelle manière Breton redéfinit le mouvement surréaliste à la lumière des arts visuels. Nous avons pour postulat qu’il s’agit du texte central de Breton pour comprendre la peinture surréaliste, et qu’il pourrait même s’agir là d’un manifeste de la peinture surréaliste. Nous étudions de quelle manière Breton s’inscrit dans une lignée d’écrivains qui abordent les arts visuels dans leurs textes, et qu’il fait cela tout en se détachant des critiques d’art de son époque. Nous croyons que Le surréalisme et la peinture est un texte qui allie à la fois un discours critique et poétique. De plus, en nous penchant sur d’autres textes sur l’art de Breton, nous montrons l’évolution de ses idées sur les arts visuels. Nous nous penchons aussi sur des concepts comme le modèle intérieur et l’automatisme pour comprendre avec quels paramètres Breton tente de définir la peinture surréaliste.

Woman is an ever-present image in the prose poems Nadja, L'amour fou and Arcane 17 by Andre Breton. While the image incorporates several autobiographical references, this is not the revelation. With textual recurrence forming a thematic, topical thread, the image is seen in its poetic, symbolic and mythical dimensions. Woman offers a surrealist poet a rhetorical gift. In these works the image of woman acquires symbolic value. It is identified with Nature in its cosmic, telluric reality, rooted in the unconscious in its oneiric reality. It is epiphanic in that it gives access to the Other's vision. To the poet it represents, to use Carl Jung's hermeneutic, the archetypal figure of the Anima. In its mythical dimensions, finally, the image calls forth the great visions of femininity: Muse, Sprite, Fairy, Elf, Virgin...

This thesis proposes a general overview of the three principal critical approaches to images of female madness in the work of Andre Breton, more specifically in his narrative Nadja. Grounded, respectively, in a Freudian, a feminist and a mythocritical perspective, these approaches tend to present a negative vision of Nadja's madness. After examining the arguments made by proponents of each approach, this study seeks to lay the foundations for positive analyses which will allow for the rehabilitation of female madness and the foregrounding of the link between insanity and female identity. Breton at once desired and fostered this feminine condition, which he deemed to be essential to creation and the discovery of the secret meaning of life: the marvelous. While it may convey disconcerting qualities, female madness is portrayed as noble and exceptional in this unique book whose title is the Russian word for hope.

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