Este trabalho se propõe a estudar a prosa de ficção de José Agrippino de Paula, sobretudo os romances Lugar público e PanAmérica. Nosso objetivo é demonstrar como essas obras absorveram técnicas de vanguarda, notadamente do chamado Novo Romance Francês, que não eram comuns na prosa de ficção brasileira no período em que foram publicadas, a década de 1960. Além disso, com PanAmérica, o autor propôs uma leitura original da mitologia contemporânea configurada pela cultura de massa. Acreditamos que, ainda hoje, esses livros se constituem como romances de excesso e de exceção, já que, por suas inovações formais, não se enquadraram na tradição do romance brasileiro, o que acabou por relegá-los à margem da nossa história literária. / This work aims to study the fiction written by José Agrippino de Paula, mainly the novels Lugar público e PanAmérica. Our goal is to demonstrate how these works absorbed the Avant-garde literary techniques, especially the so-called Nouveau Roman, that were still not common in the Brazilian fiction prose in the 1960s, the time of their publication. Moreover, with PanAmérica, the author proposes a new way of reading the contemporary mythology molded by mass culture. We believe that even today, the books can be considered both excessive and exceptional. Due to their formal innovations, they escape the traditional Brazilian novels boundaries, which at the same time has relegated them to the margins of our literary history.

Les fictions de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua s'affranchissent de la repr��sentation mim��tique de la r��alit��, traditionnellement consid��r��e comme dogme du roman. Leurs ��uvres, qui ressassent la m��moire des ��v��nements historiques dans l'Histoire du XX�� si��cle, ne visent pas une restauration du pass�� au moyen de la chronologie et de l'encha��nement de causes et d'effets. Le v��cu personnel de Claude Simon et de Yu Hua les incite �� r��fl��chir sur la valeur de l'��criture face �� la violence des d��sastres, et �� remettre en cause toutes les modalit��s de repr��sentation pr��tendant r��tablir l'ordre du monde qui est en r��alit�� radicalement chaotique. L'aspect insaisissable, obs��dant de l'Histoire les obligent �� partir �� la recherche de formes nouvelles, et �� ��laborer une transfiguration de leur objet d'��criture. Ainsi, une exp��rience du temps chaotique voire fantastique, la hantise des a��eux et du p��re, les manifestations d'un ��rotisme intense, d'une violence aveugle, ainsi que tous les proc��d��s de d��sorganisation de la narration, toutes les ��tranget��s du langage, t��moignent d'un constat : l'��vocation du pass�� ne peut advenir qu'obliquement. L'importance de l'Histoire dans la di��g��se et dans la gen��se de leurs ��uvres r��fute un type de critique qui identifie ces ��uvres au formalisme. Ce lien organique entre l'Histoire et la fiction montre aussi qu'une certaine litt��rature contemporaine, caract��ris��e par une volont�� de rupture avec les codes classiques de la repr��sentation romanesque, surmonte une tentation nihiliste pour sugg��rer une ��thique.

This thesis examines the career of Jean Ricardou after 1982. The introduction indicates the obscurity in which he Ricardou’s reputation languishes currently. Chapter 1 sketches Ricardou’s career until 1982 and examines the denunciations of him by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute and Claude Simon pronounced in that year, and how critics have subsequently portrayed him. Chapter 2 describes Ricardou’s involvement in writing workshops in France and the role he played in developing them and exercises to be used in such workshops, in particular the Bestiaire. Chapter 3 introduces the new discipline of textique which aims to provide a theoretical description of all phenomena associated with writing starting from the simplest mark. Chapter 4 suggests that textique, because of its militant materialism, might be susceptible to ultra-left tendencies. Chapters 5 and 6 examine textique as literary criticism, the former with reference to Une Maladie chronique, the latter to sonnets by Heredia and Mallarmé. Chapter 7 examines Ricardou’s later fiction, the concept of the “mixte” as developed in Le théâtre des métamorphoses and Hommage à Jean Paulhan and in these texts and La cathédrale de Sens, it explores the commonly held opinion that Ricardou’s work is “anti-referential”. The conclusion looks at factors that could influence the expansion of textique’s influence, its difficulty or reluctance to find an audience and its relation to those that Ricardou considers to be the great thinkers of the modern era, Mallarmé, Freud and Marx.

This study of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s first four published novels seeks to examine the manifestations of four different philosophical concepts in these works. Each novel will be taken as a primary example of Robbe-Grillet’s interrogation of either time, space, difference or repetition. The title of this work, ‘Philosophical Conceptions of Time, Space, Difference and Repetition in the Early Novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet’, as apparently uncomplicated as it is, is useful not only for directly implicating the topics to be examined, but also for what it does not directly allude to. By making reference neither to Robbe-Grillet’s involvement in the movement of the Nouveau Roman nor the theoretical ideas he developed, the title demonstrates one of the main approaches employed here; for Robbe-Grillet’s novels will be examined first and foremost for the textual qualities they exhibit, and will not be tested against the author’s statements, as is most often the case in studies of Robbe-Grillet. When examining these novels, we will thus neither support our study with quotations from Robbe-Grillet’s many interviews and public statements, nor concern ourselves with the apparent objectivity or subjectivity of the novels’ narrators, nor will we base our examinations of the philosophical concepts found in the novels on questions of subjectivity or objectivity. It will become clear throughout our work that Robbe-Grillet’s novels, particularly the early novels that are the focus of this work, have been very well researched and from many different perspectives, yet in spite of the proliferation of texts dealing with these novels certain standard readings have evolved that impinge on the advancement of our understanding of Robbe-Grillet’s complex works. We will argue that this is precisely because these readings actually negate the multiple interpretations that the novels demand and that these standardised readings therefore work as fixed central points around which almost all analyses of the novels revolve. It is thus the aim of this work to complicate these dominant readings by engaging with the ways in which the novels both offer and deny different interpretations, a strategy that ultimately results in the impossibility of a sole fixed reading. In choosing this approach to study the novels, we wish to concentrate solely on the non-representative aspects of these novels. That is to say, the novels will not be treated here, as they are by many critics, for the way they present themselves on the surface as merely concerned with an interrogation of narrative strategies, characterisation or with an application of Robbe-Grillet’s theoretical modus operandi. Rather we will argue that the texts simultaneously invite a deeper reflection on philosophical concepts. The possibility the novels offer to consider the four philosophical concepts that are the focus of this study will be remarked by the novels’ continual engagement with these ideas so as to suggest finally the opportunity of conceiving of these concepts in a literary discourse. Thus, the philosophical concepts which will be deployed in examining Robbe-Grillet’s novels aim to elucidate not strict equivalences between a given concept and its expression in the novel, but rather the ways in which the novels themselves can be seen to propose their own conceptions of these philosophical notions. Thus, each of these chapters will ostensibly deal with a particular philosophical notion, yet they can be seen to work towards a similar shared goal; for each section of this study will propose that it is impossible to isolate a single unifying thesis or central controlling identity through which the texts can be examined. Instead, we will suggest that the novels are governed by a logic of difference in itself, a philosophical notion which, as we will see throughout this work, operates outside of the notion of identity and which favours fluid, unstable and continuously evolving relationships of its constituent parts.

Diss. Univ. Trier, 2006.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar as principais características da obra Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) aos leitores brasileiros por meio da análise de seu primeiro livro, Tropismes(1957/1996), publicado inicialmente em 1939. Para isso, recorreu-se às obras críticas e teóricas sobre o Nouveau Romane a uma análise de aspectos fundamentais deste primeiro livro. Concluiu-se que, embora relacionada às tendências do Nouveau Roman de inovação na forma e no conteúdo da narrativa, Nathalie Sarraute apresenta uma poéticabastante singular na tentativa de revelar os tropismos, movimentos interiores e complexos pouco perceptíveis, porém presentes no cotidiano. / This dissertation aims to present the main features of Nathalie Sarrautes work (1900-1999) to the brazilian public through the analysis of her first book, Tropismes(1957/1996) initially published in 1939. Therefore, we used the critical and theoretical works on the Nouveau Romanand an analysis of the main characteristics of this first book. It was concluded that, although related to the Nouveau Romantrend of innovation in form and content of the narrative, Nathalie Sarraute presents a rather unique poeticsin attempt to reveal the tropisms, complex andinner movements wich are barely noticeable, but present in everyday life.

Les critiques littéraires estiment qu’il existe une certaine relation entre Robbe-Grillet et Echenoz, entre le Nouveau Roman et les jeunes écrivains de chez Minuit. Mais jusqu’à nos jours, il n’existe pas encore de recherches systématiques sur leur filiation dans les aspects divergents et convergents, notamment sur les différences et les ressemblances dans le récit. Dans cette étude, en interprétant l’obscurité du miroir non seulement comme fragmentation en multiples reflets mais aussi comme inversion du vide, nous apercevons que chez les deux écrivains, le sujet unit vainement en lui le même et l’autre en raison d’une crise identitaire. À travers un ailleurs en antithèse de l’ici, les auteurs dressent une typologie spatiale dominée par le vide et l’ouverture. Concernant la structure narrative, il existe aussi des voies différentes de reflets du miroir au sein du texte et entre les textes. D’ailleurs, les deux écrivains produisent par eux-mêmes des images spéculaires, qui se superposent et s’excluent, lorsque nous les envisageons au reflet du discours critique, ou dans le miroir de leur groupe respectif. / The literary critics have found the relation between Robbe-Grillet and Echenoz and that between New Novel and young writers at Midnight. However, in terms of their filiation, there is no systematic research related to the convergent and divergent aspects so far, especially the differences and similarities in the narration. By interpreting the obscurity of the mirror as the fragmentation of multiple reflections and the inversion of the vacancy as well, this dissertation finds that the subject in their writings incorporates both the self and the other to itself in vain because of the identity crisis. Based on the antithesis between here and there, both authors provide a typology space dominated by vacancy and openness. Regarding the narrative structure, there are different ways to mirror reflections within a text and between the texts. Moreover, from the perspective of the critical discourses, or in the mirror of their respective groups, both writers form some overlapped and inter-excluded specular images.

Le monde de la tour et de la ville de Babel représente dans sa lecture moderne l’univers monolithique de ceux qui parlent la même langue. L’altérité n’y a pas sa place. Quand le monde ordonné bascule dans la confusion et la folie, les babéliens se dispersent et les différences s’installent. La prise en compte par le « chercheur de tropismes » des liens entre même et autre, l’évaluation de la juste distance entre intégration au sein d’une communauté et solitude informe la dynamique de la création sarrautienne. L’hypersensible, figure de l’autre, expérimente toutes les formes de rejet et toutes les tentatives d’assimilation. La régression vers le monde indéterminé des origines où les rumeurs du monde ne l’atteignent pas, permettent au « chercheur de tropismes » de se faire pleinement créateur. La figure du créateur se décline dans les figures symétriques de l’enfant, du fou et du pauvre. L’humilité seule permet au créateur de percevoir la matière ténue de la création. La recherche explore les différentes modalités qui permettent la saisie de la multiplicité à travers notamment les différentes métamorphoses du monde qui bascule dans l’irréel et à travers les manifestations de la folie. L’œuvre explore la question essentielle de la résistance à l’oppression portée par les discours d’autorité. Cette recherche permet ainsi également de resituer la création sarrautienne dans un discours qui prend en compte, même de manière indirecte par le biais de l’imaginaire, la vie et les problèmes de la cité réelle. / In its modern reading, the world of the tower and city of Babel represents the monolithic world of those who speak the same language. The Otherness has no place within its boundaries. When the order of the world is thrown into confusion and madness, the babelians disperse and differences arise. The way the 'researcher of tropisms' takes into account the links between self and other, and considers the right distance between integration within a community and loneliness, helps to shape the sarrautian dynamics of creation. The hypersensitive character represents the other. He experiments all the forms of rejection and all the attempts at assimilation. Regression to the undetermined world of origins, the place where the whispers of the world are not heard, allows the 'researcher of tropisms' to be fully creative. The figure of the creator is symmetrical to the figure of the child, the madman and the poorman. Only humility allows the creator to collect the tenuous material of creation. The study explores the various ways that enable to capture the multiplicity especially through the various metamorphoses of the world when it falls into unreality and into madness. The work explores the fundamental question of resistance to oppression carried by the authoritative discourse. This research also allows to resituate the sarrautian creation in a speech that takes into account the life and problems of the real city, even indirectly through the imaginary.

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

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