Texte remanié de: Th. / La couv. porte en plus : "le poète et les savoirs scientifiques" Bibliogr. p. 367-378. Index.

The French surrealist poet, Henri Michaux, has remained aloof from all groups and schools of writers, preferring to pursue independently his principal aim in writing which is to resolve, or at least approach, the problem of being, the problem of the meaning of life itself. His works reveal two distinct visions of the world. One is the real world, the world of the outside, of tangible things and places, the world of the daily routine of reality. The other is the imaginary world, the world of the inside, of the "self", the world of dreams, fantasies, inventions and hallucinations. In each of these worlds, Michaux is threatened by what he calls '"presences'* and '"absences". The former represent all the hostile forces in his worlds, all the things which get in the way and add to the anxiety of his existence. The latter represent nothingness, complete emptiness, the great void which brings fear and solitude. Confronted with these "presences" and "absences", his mental life becomes one of anguish. It is the purpose of this study to identify the "presences" and "absences", to define them, whenever possible, and to show how they form, in large measure, the poetic world of Henri Michaux. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [174]-176).

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dissertação (mestrado)-Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2009. / Submitted by Patrícia Nunes da Silva (patricia@bce.unb.br) on 2011-06-09T18:34:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LucianaPereiraSobrinho.pdf: 947738 bytes, checksum: 0ae8697800d2ca5ce1fb380d5bd4fd66 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patrícia Nunes da Silva(patricia@bce.unb.br) on 2011-06-09T18:34:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LucianaPereiraSobrinho.pdf: 947738 bytes, checksum: 0ae8697800d2ca5ce1fb380d5bd4fd66 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-09T18:34:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_LucianaPereiraSobrinho.pdf: 947738 bytes, checksum: 0ae8697800d2ca5ce1fb380d5bd4fd66 (MD5) / Esta dissertação apresenta o poeta belga Henri Michaux, de modo a evidenciar que corpo é o ponto de partida e o meio pelo qual a escrita michaudiana se realiza. Portanto, selecionou-se os seguintes poemas, Os olhos, Magia, Circulando dentro do meu corpo e Movimentos, retirados de obras de períodos diferentes da vida desse poeta. Primeiramente, demostra-se a biografia do poeta, entretanto, não há interesse em resumir este trabalho em uma análise biográfica. E sim, provocar o leitor, fazendo que perceba Henri Michaux como um poeta que, de certa forma, desenvolveu sua escrita a partir da consciência de um corpo que experimenta. Assim, o autor por meio da sua experiência de vida prática e existencial criou uma escrita plena de imagens do corpo com o intuito de imprimir em si o mundo, revelando um corpo que sofre e descreve seus sofrimentos. Em seguida, realiza-se as análises dos poemas mencionados. Logo depois, conclui-se pelas análises e traduções que o poeta cria uma escrita singular e imagética em que a relação entre o espaço interno e externo é contraditória e complementar, pois a obra michaudiana mantém essa relação entre o poeta e a experimentação corporal de si mesmo para causar em seu leitor reações súbitas por meio da linguagem poética. Ao final, há as traduções dos poemas como uma forma de leitura complementar para melhor compreender as análises que as antecedem. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This paper aims to present the Belgian poet Henri Michaux, by means of highlight the body as being the starting point and the way the writing of Michaux is performed. For that reason, there have been selected the following poems “ Les yeux”, “ Magie”, “ En circulant dans mon corps” and “Mouvements” These poems were taken from different periods of his life. Firstly, it explored Michaux‟s biography, but it did not mean to put these words shortened in a biographical analysis. However, it aimed to provoke the reader by making him understand Henri Michaux as a poet who developed somehow his writing from the conciousness of a body he experienced. This way, the writer created a style of writing full of body images, which printed on him the world he had around and revealed such a suffering body and all its descriptions at the moment he experienced his practical and existential life. Then, the poems above were analyzed. It was concluded from the analysis and translations of those poems that the writer forms a unique and imaginal writing where the relation between inside and outside spaces is contradictory and complementary. It is accordingly stated because Michaux‟s work keeps the relation between poet and self body experimentation just to make his readers having such sudden reactions through the poetic language. Finally, there are the translations of the poems as a complementary reading to better understand the precedent analysis. ______________________________________________________________________________ RÉSUMÉ / Cette dissertation présente le poète belge Henri Michaux de manière à évider que le corps est le point de départ et le moyen pour lequel l‟écriture michaudienne se réalise. Alors, on a sélectionné les poèmes suivants « Les yeux », « Magie » « En circulant dans mon corps » et « Mouvements », retirés des oeuvres des périodes différentes de la vie de ce poète. Premièrement, on démontre la biographie du poète, cependant, il n'y a pas d'intérêt en résumer ce travail à une analyse biographique, mais de provoquer le lecteur en lui faisant apercevoir Henri Michaux comme un poète qui d'une certaine manière a développé son écriture à partir de la conscience d'un corps qui expérimente. Ainsi, parmi l'expérience de sa vie pratique et existentielle, l'auteur a crée une écriture pleine d'images du corps avec l'intention d'imprimer en soi le monde, en révélant un corps qui souffre et décrit ses souffrances. Ensuite, on analyse les poèmes mentionnés. Puis on conclut par les analyses et les traductions que le poète crée une écriture singulière et imagée donc la relation entre l'espace interne et externe est contradictoire et complémentaire, parce que l'oeuvre michaudienne maintient cette relation entre le poète et l'expérimentation corporelle de soi-même pour causer aux lecteurs des réactions subites travers le langage poétique. À la fin, il y a des traductions des poèmes comme une forme de lecture complémentaire pour mieux comprendre des analyses antérieures.

L’émotion « par excellence » qu’est la colère défie particulièrement sa mise en mots et soulève des questions pragmatiques complexes entre colère éprouvée, colère écrite et colère lue. Afin de cerner ces spécificités nous interrogeons différents modèles (rhétorique, esthétique, éthique) à partir desquels la théorie littéraire tente de saisir les émotions suscitées par la lecture, et nous exposons une méthode d’analyse du texte des affects (sémiotique des passions). Les apports possibles de conceptions philosophiques et psychologiques de l’émotion ne faisant pas du langage une médiation essentielle sont questionnés. Ces différentes perspectives d’analyse sont alors appliquées à une étude diachronique de la colère et des imaginaires, formes et valeurs dont nous avons hérité. Les apports de cette enquête sont ressaisis à partir de modélisations de ce champ passionnel. Deux écritures singulières de la colère, apparemment antinomiques mais se revendiquant toutes deux ostensiblement de cette passion et de son énergie, sont alors étudiées. Les textes de Michaux nous amènent à questionner à partir d’un bon usage de la colère le fondement passionnel du pouvoir poétique dans le cadre d’une énonciation jouant d’une distanciation affichée. Féerie pour une autre fois de L.-F. Céline, entre stratégie rhétorique et recherche esthétique d’un « style émotif », nous donne à voir comment une crispation furieuse mettant en échec une lecture « classique » du récit, libère la puissance créatrice de l’affect. Entre approche globale et études de cas, on réinterroge à travers la colère les enjeux du passionnel dans l’espace littéraire. / As an emotion « par excellence » anger particularly defies its setting into words and raises complex pragmatic questions between experienced, written and read angers. In order to determine its specificities we analyse and experiment various pragmatics models (rhetoric, esthetics, ethics) from which the literary theory tries to seize the emotion caused bu the reading, and we expose a method of analysis of the textual affects (semiotic of passions). The possible contributions of philosophical and psychological designs of the emotion, not making the language an essential mediation, are questioned. These various prospects of analysis are then applied to a diachronic study of anger and the imaginaries, forms and values of it we inhenrited. This investigation is seized again thanks to modelings of this passion field. Two singular writings of anger, apparently antithetical but asserting both openly this passion and its energy, are then studied. The texts of Micbaux, displaying a distant attitude, lead us to question how a good use of anger can be the base of poetic power. Féerie pour une autre fois, by L. F. Céline, between rhetorical strategy and aesthetic search of an « émotive » style, gives us to see how a furious crispation, while putting in failure a « classical » reading of the account, allows the deployment of the creative power of the affect. Between a global approach and case studies we reinterpret, through anger, the issues of the expression of passions in the literary space.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Langue et littérature : Paris 8 : 2006. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. p. 365-374.

Henri Michaux first discovered mescaline in 1956. This encounter proved a lasting influence on the work of the writer who, for at least ten years, struggled to circumscribe, then tried to explain the nature of the terrible shock he had received from the mind-altering chemical. The event was so important for the poet that in due time, it brought about a veritable conversion, a total and uncompromising revision of his most fundamental relationships towards the function of language and thought, and towards the basic premises of existence in general. Signs had hinted, previously, at this sudden transfiguration of his vision. His relationships with other drugs (ether, opium) betrayed his hidden desire to go beyond the limits ordained by his tragically caustic and defiant mind. Yet mescaline alone, as a weapon, proved strong enough to overcome Michaux's chronic insubordination, and clear the prolific way that led him toward the realisation and acceptance of that obscure other whose presence he had hitherto only felt, and which had been asleep within him forever.

L'ailleurs est une notion primordiale en poésie et Henri Michaux, à la suite de Baudelaire et de Rimbaud en est l'un des principaux représentants. La notion d'un ailleurs spécifique à la création poétique et artistique est utilisée pour analyser comment le poète transforme la poésie. Les ailleurs réels de ses voyages et les ailleurs imaginaires de sa poésie s'unissent alors dans un voyage intérieur qui permet au poète de se réconcilier avec lui-même. Henri Michaux utilise sa volonté d'impuissance pour s'extraire de la tradition classique et du romantisme artistique et pour résister au monde qui l'entoure. Mais l'exploration de son intériorité et la modification de l'espace qu'elle impliquent le confrontent à l'universelle douleur de l'existence humaine. Le poète s'attache alors, malgré les blessures de sa vie, à apaiser son espace intérieur. Il s'inspire des philosophies asiatiques et de l'ancienne magie chamanique pour enchanter le monde. Il parvient à un art de guérison qui renouvelle la poésie par le recours aux déplacements et aux mutations de l'ailleurs poétique / Being "anywhere out of the world" as a poetical space, is a central concept of poetry. Henri Michaux, following Baudelaire and Rimbaud is one of the main explorers of the poetical space. The notion of a specific space of poetic and artistic creation is used to analyze how the poet transforms poetry. The real space of travel and the space of imagination in his poetry join together for a journey in which the poet reconciles with himself. Henri Michaux uses his will of weakness to escape the classical and romantic tradition and resist to the world around him. The exploration of his interiority, and the modification of space that it requires, make him confront to the universal pain of men. The poet, despite the wounds of his life, wants his inner space to be in peace. He bases his art on Asian philosophies and the ancient shamanic magic. He reaches a healing art which renews poetry by using of shifting and mutations of the poetic space.