Cette recherche traite de la dualité intérieur-extérieur présente dans les théories sur le travail de l’acteur. Nous avons d’abord constaté d’une manière empirique que l’utilisation de cette dualité ne permettait par de clarifier le travail de l’acteur. Nous avons ensuite recherché la présence de cette dualité - et ses conséquences - dans les théories théâtrales ; nous avons aussi recherché l’intérêt – ou non – du dépassement de cette notion dans les théories de l’acteur. La première partie de ce mémoire est consacrée à l’étude de cette dualité dans les bases théoriques de dramaturges - pédagogues importants du début du XXème siècle : Stanislavski, Copeau et Jouvet. Dans la seconde partie nous analysons les critiques adressées à cette dualité par Meyerhold et Brecht. Pour ces derniers, l’intériorisation du travail induit chez l’acteur une perturbation psychologique [ce que Meyerhold appelle la « neurasthénie »], son aliénation et finalement la mort de l’art. Après avoir confirmé la nécessité du dépassement de la dualité en question, nous prenons en compte les théories de Sartre sur la personnalité, l’émotion, l’imaginaire et l’imagination pour clarifier en d’autres termes le travail de l’acteur, laissant de côté la métaphysique de l’esprit et de la matière. / This research deals with the question of the interior-exterior duality as found in theories about the actor’s work. First of all, we noticed, in an empirical way, that the use of this duality does not allow to make clear the actor’s work. Then, we looked for the presence of this duality – and its consequences – in theatrical theories; we also searched for the benefit – or not – of transcending this notion in theories of acting. The first part of this dissertation is devoted to a study of this duality in the theoretical fundamentals of playwrights-teachers of the early 20th century: Stanislavsky, Copeau and Jouvet. In the second part we analyze the critics addressed to this duality by Meyerhold and Brecht. Basically, these playwrights stressed that internalization of the actor’s work leads to his psychological disturbance [called “neurasthenia” by Meyerhold], his alienation and, eventually, the death of art. . Once confirmed the need of transcending this questioned duality, we take into account the theories developed by Sartre about personality, emotion, imaginary and imagination in order to clarify in other words the actor’s work, leaving out metaphysics of mind and matter.

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A presente dissertação tem como propósito estudar o que denominamos herói anti-existencialista do romance Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, ao analisar sua dificuldade de auto-afirmação diante do mundo de que faz parte, a qual o conduzirá à ação central do livro, o assassinato de Julião Tavares. Escamoteando essa causa subjetiva dos afetos aparentes, os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, o protagonista irá atribuí-los ao exterior, à sua existência citadina, ao convívio com o outro, ao rival, Julião Tavares. A dificuldade de auto-afirmação causa de ordem subjetiva desses afetos aparentes , com origem no passado da infância, na não superada rivalidade edipiana, ameaça trazer a tona dois afetos latentes, que se revelam por meio da narrativa digressiva, enquanto forma de auto-análise, a saber: o medo da castração simbólica, e a culpa pelo desejo da morte do pai na infância. Daí a necessidade de escamoteá-la, atribuindo-se ao exterior, a uma causa de ordem objetiva, portanto, os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, o que engendrará a idéia de vingança, motivo aparente do assassinato. No ato de vingança estaria implicado um valor anacrônico, com origem na sociedade patriarcal, na qual vivera o menino Luís da silva, a saber: a prática da violência naturalizada, enquanto expressão do sentido arcaico da liberdade, a liberdade ilimitada. Nesse sentido, o caráter anti-existencialista do herói o levará para a livre escolha do assassinato, como forma imprópria de tentar superar os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, cuja conseqüência será o aniquilamento do seu ser, descaminho da sua liberdade. / This dissertation aims at studying the anti-existentialist hero in Angústia, a novel by Graciliano Ramos. In doing so, one analyzes the character´s difficulty of self-affirmation to the world in which he lives, and which will occasionally take him to the central action of the story, that is, the murder of Julião Tavares. As to hide the underlying causes of the apparent affections i.e., feelings of oppression and inferiority , the protagonist will tie them to exterior elements, such as the fact that he lives in town or to the fact that he lives with his enemy, Julião Tavares. The difficulty of self-affirmation is the cause for the underlying apparent affections and has its origins on his childhood, instead of being based on the surpassed oedipal rivalry. It risks bringing up two underlying affections shown up in the story by means of digressions in moments of self analysis done by the character. There are the fear of symbolic castration, end the guilty for wishing for his father´s death when he was a child. This is why he feels the need of hiding them and ties their existence to exterior reasons, to something objective, and this is why he feels inferior and oppressed. Ultimately, there are reasons that will make him wish for revenge and will also constitute the reasons for murder. There is an anachronistic value implied on such revenge, whose origin goes back to the patriarchal society in which the boy Luís da Silva lived: the common naturalized violence as an expression of the archaic sense of freedom an unlimited freedom. In this sense, the anti-existentialist trace of the hero will take him to the free will of murdering as an improper way trying to overcome the feeling of oppression and inferiority, whose consequence will be his own annihilation, a misleading of his freedom.

A presente dissertação tem como propósito estudar o que denominamos herói anti-existencialista do romance Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos, ao analisar sua dificuldade de auto-afirmação diante do mundo de que faz parte, a qual o conduzirá à ação central do livro, o assassinato de Julião Tavares. Escamoteando essa causa subjetiva dos afetos aparentes, os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, o protagonista irá atribuí-los ao exterior, à sua existência citadina, ao convívio com o outro, ao rival, Julião Tavares. A dificuldade de auto-afirmação causa de ordem subjetiva desses afetos aparentes , com origem no passado da infância, na não superada rivalidade edipiana, ameaça trazer a tona dois afetos latentes, que se revelam por meio da narrativa digressiva, enquanto forma de auto-análise, a saber: o medo da castração simbólica, e a culpa pelo desejo da morte do pai na infância. Daí a necessidade de escamoteá-la, atribuindo-se ao exterior, a uma causa de ordem objetiva, portanto, os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, o que engendrará a idéia de vingança, motivo aparente do assassinato. No ato de vingança estaria implicado um valor anacrônico, com origem na sociedade patriarcal, na qual vivera o menino Luís da silva, a saber: a prática da violência naturalizada, enquanto expressão do sentido arcaico da liberdade, a liberdade ilimitada. Nesse sentido, o caráter anti-existencialista do herói o levará para a livre escolha do assassinato, como forma imprópria de tentar superar os sentimentos de opressão e inferioridade, cuja conseqüência será o aniquilamento do seu ser, descaminho da sua liberdade. / This dissertation aims at studying the anti-existentialist hero in Angústia, a novel by Graciliano Ramos. In doing so, one analyzes the character´s difficulty of self-affirmation to the world in which he lives, and which will occasionally take him to the central action of the story, that is, the murder of Julião Tavares. As to hide the underlying causes of the apparent affections i.e., feelings of oppression and inferiority , the protagonist will tie them to exterior elements, such as the fact that he lives in town or to the fact that he lives with his enemy, Julião Tavares. The difficulty of self-affirmation is the cause for the underlying apparent affections and has its origins on his childhood, instead of being based on the surpassed oedipal rivalry. It risks bringing up two underlying affections shown up in the story by means of digressions in moments of self analysis done by the character. There are the fear of symbolic castration, end the guilty for wishing for his father´s death when he was a child. This is why he feels the need of hiding them and ties their existence to exterior reasons, to something objective, and this is why he feels inferior and oppressed. Ultimately, there are reasons that will make him wish for revenge and will also constitute the reasons for murder. There is an anachronistic value implied on such revenge, whose origin goes back to the patriarchal society in which the boy Luís da Silva lived: the common naturalized violence as an expression of the archaic sense of freedom an unlimited freedom. In this sense, the anti-existentialist trace of the hero will take him to the free will of murdering as an improper way trying to overcome the feeling of oppression and inferiority, whose consequence will be his own annihilation, a misleading of his freedom.

Les fictions de Simone de Beauvoir constituent le centre de gravité d’une œuvre protéiforme. Encore largement méconnue et nettement dévaluée par rapport aux essais et aux Mémoires, l’œuvre romanesque de l’écrivaine se situe aux limites indécises du littéraire, du philosophique, de l’historique et de l’autobiographique. Son projet littéraire s’enracine dans l’existence, c’est pourquoi nous avons choisi d’étudier la genèse de l’œuvre romanesque et le processus d’invention de soi depuis les années de jeunesse jusqu’à la naissance de l’écrivaine et la reconnaissance publique de ce statut en 1943. Le projet d’écrire un « roman métaphysique », qui détermine des modalités d’écriture spécifiques, a été influencé et soutenu par une conception existentialiste de l’homme et du monde que Beauvoir est une des premières à définir dans l’après-guerre. Ce projet de nature éthique, qui porte l’idée d’une littérature « engagée », n’est pas seulement collectif dans les enjeux et les principes qui le sous-tendent, mais aussi singulier : derrière la permanence d’un éthos d’écrivain, on trouve chez Simone de Beauvoir un constant réajustement du roman à l’Histoire et à son expérience propre, ce qui explique les nécessaires mutations du roman et de l’écriture de L’Invitée à La Femme rompue. Par l’exploration d’un imaginaire et d’une écriture singulière, nous pensons redonner à Simone de Beauvoir la place qui lui revient dans l’histoire du roman français au XXe siècle, entre Gide, dont elle est l’héritière, et les représentants du Nouveau Roman. / Simone de Beauvoir’s fictions are the center of gravity of a multifaceted body of work. Still relatively unknown and largely underestimated in comparison with her essays and memoirs, her fictional work is situated at the indistinct limits of the literary, the philosophical, the historical and the autobiographical. Beauvoir’s literary project has its roots in existence, which explains why I have chosen to study the genesis of her fictional work and the process of the invention of self from her youth up to her birth as a writer and the public recognition of this status in 1943. Her idea of writing a “metaphysical novel”, one that fixes specific writing requirements, was influenced and buttressed by an existentialist conception of the human being and the world that Beauvoir, one of the first, defined postwar. This basically ethical project, which assumes the idea of a literature of engagement, is not just collective in its stakes and the principles it underpins but is also singular : behind the permanence of a writer’s ethos, there is in Simone de Beauvoir a constant readjustment of the novel to History and to her own experience, elucidating the novel’s and her writing’s necessary mutations from She Came To Stay to The Woman Destroyed. Through the exploration of the imaginary and of a singular style, I wish to give Simone de Beauvoir her rightful place in the history of the 20th century French novel, between Gide, her predecessor, and the representatives of the “Nouveau roman”.

This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A Preliminary Account," "The New Music," and "Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegal," and Vonnegut's book Timequake to see how each author seeks to find a new hope in the face of a collapsed causal system. This work is an examination of the form and content of each author's work as it pertains to their own philosophical standing and in relation to the other two authors' works. I argue that each author finds a different hope for humanity depending on their place among the philosophical trends during their time. / Graduation date: 2012