The semantic organization of Normand Chaurette's Reve d'une nuit d'hopital, Provincetown Playhouse ... and Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu ... plays is quite mysterious. It requires scrupulous deciphering in order to understand the author's sense of direction. This is accomplished by studying the movement of madness, that of writing itself. This movement is heliocoidal, spiral shaped; it is a collection of repeated themes nourished with redundancies, replications, insistence and depth. The spiral symbolizes the cyclonic tendency of the characters' torment, a tendency reaching to embrace the heart of this torment. But this insanity cannot be reasonably revealed. The mystery that sustains Chaurette's plays remains complete. / This study brings out the repetitive spiral structures present in each text in order to explain their presence and their dynamic. It is an attempt to spell out what the text's language remains unable to say: the essence of one soul's insanity. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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