O presente trabalho é um estudo da poética do escritor, jornalista e militante argentino Rodolfo Jorge Walsh. Tradutor, editor e autor de relatos policiais, soube fazer da atividade literária um ato de reflexão sobre a história do seu país e da própria ação militante. Os procedimentos de escrita utilizados dentro da sua obra procuravam a eficiência persuasiva, mas também a eficiência na representação dos problemas que estavam colocados para o escritor na sua ação política. São objeto de estudo deste trabalho: a passagem do policial de enigma para o hard-boiled e o posterior abandono do subgênero; a opção pela forma breve do conto e não do romance; o abandono da escrita estritamente literária que seria retomada só nos últimos meses da sua vida -processos que coincidiram com o desenvolvimento de investigações sobre crimes de Estado e seu ingresso na militância- e a retomada da autoria, pouco antes de morrer, para a produção de uma série de cartas pessoais no contexto da ditadura que se iniciou em 1976 e da polêmica do autor com a direção da organização Montoneros, na qual militava. / The present work is a study of Rodolfo Jorge Walsh\'s poetry. He was an author, a journalist and an activist. Also a translator, editor an author of police short stories. He knew how to transform the literary activity into an act of reflexion about the history of his country and the activist action itself. The writing procedures used inside his works searched not only for a persuasive efficiency, but also the efficiency in representing the problems faced by the author in his political action. They are object of study: the passage from police enigma to hard-boiled and the following desertion of the sub gender; the option for the brief form of the short story and not the novel; desertion of the writing strictly literary that would be taken up again in the last months of his life - processes that coincided with the development of State crime investigations and his participation in an activist life - and getting back the authorship, shortly before his death, into a production of personal letters in a dictatorship context that began in 1976 and the controversy of the author in relation to the direction of the Montoneros organization, for which he was an activist.

O presente trabalho é um estudo da poética do escritor, jornalista e militante argentino Rodolfo Jorge Walsh. Tradutor, editor e autor de relatos policiais, soube fazer da atividade literária um ato de reflexão sobre a história do seu país e da própria ação militante. Os procedimentos de escrita utilizados dentro da sua obra procuravam a eficiência persuasiva, mas também a eficiência na representação dos problemas que estavam colocados para o escritor na sua ação política. São objeto de estudo deste trabalho: a passagem do policial de enigma para o hard-boiled e o posterior abandono do subgênero; a opção pela forma breve do conto e não do romance; o abandono da escrita estritamente literária que seria retomada só nos últimos meses da sua vida -processos que coincidiram com o desenvolvimento de investigações sobre crimes de Estado e seu ingresso na militância- e a retomada da autoria, pouco antes de morrer, para a produção de uma série de cartas pessoais no contexto da ditadura que se iniciou em 1976 e da polêmica do autor com a direção da organização Montoneros, na qual militava. / The present work is a study of Rodolfo Jorge Walsh\'s poetry. He was an author, a journalist and an activist. Also a translator, editor an author of police short stories. He knew how to transform the literary activity into an act of reflexion about the history of his country and the activist action itself. The writing procedures used inside his works searched not only for a persuasive efficiency, but also the efficiency in representing the problems faced by the author in his political action. They are object of study: the passage from police enigma to hard-boiled and the following desertion of the sub gender; the option for the brief form of the short story and not the novel; desertion of the writing strictly literary that would be taken up again in the last months of his life - processes that coincided with the development of State crime investigations and his participation in an activist life - and getting back the authorship, shortly before his death, into a production of personal letters in a dictatorship context that began in 1976 and the controversy of the author in relation to the direction of the Montoneros organization, for which he was an activist.

Revenants, voyants, télépathes… : le personnel du fantastique est omniprésent dans l’œuvre de Jules Romains. C’est que le « pape de l’unanimisme » veut croire à l’existence d’un autre côté où la psyché règnerait en maîtresse (presque) absolue. Cette fascination pour l’extraordinaire étonne de la part d’un écrivain qui se comporte par ailleurs en apôtre de la raison. Mais cette apparente contradiction invite à proposer, plutôt qu’une appréhension théorique du fantastique comme catégorie architextuelle, une approche pratique du fantastique comme outil de l’écriture, de la pensée et de l’action. Il se trouve en effet que Jules Romains met l’extraordinaire au service de sa pensée scientifique et politique aussi bien que de son ambition littéraire. Maniant un fantastique militant, il crée un monde à la fois enthousiasmant et décevant – car la toute-puissance de la pensée finit par se retourner contre elle-même. Dès lors, l’œuvre échappe à son créateur, et devient œuvre du fantastique. Toutefois, il reste à Jules Romains cette ressource, de jouer sur et avec l’ambiguïté constitutive de cette œuvre qui lui échappe. L’âme, ainsi, joue le jeu des corps (d’où l’importance du thème pornographique dans la symphonie romainsienne) ; et, devant le spectacle d’un cosmos en guerre où l’unanimisme n’a pas sa place, il ne reste aux hommes de bonne volonté que d’adopter la logique de l’hypocrisie et d’accepter d’être en apparence les complices de la mauvaise volonté d’un univers criminel : la langue s’engage alors dans un périlleux devenir-rhétorique, se faisant par là même le lieu dynamique d’une lutte quasi désespérée contre la mort et le temps. / Ghosts, clairvoyants, telepathists… : the characters of fantastic literature are almost omnipresent in Jules Romains’ work. The « pope of unanimism » believed in the possible existence of a world where the psyche would be freed from material contingencies. Jules Romains being an apostle of reason, his fascination for the supernatural, or rather for the extraordinary, is surprising. But above all, it leads to rethink the fantastic. Rather than a theoretical apprehension of the fantastic considered as an architextual category, one could propose a practical approach of the fantastic considered as a literary, intellectual and political tool. Jules Romains uses the extraordinary as a scientific tool and as a political device, and hence he develops a committed fantastic. But the fantastic world he creates is both exciting and disappointing, because the omnipotence of thought ends up turning against itself. Therefore, Jules Romains has to play with the essential ambiguity of this work that escapes him, and that appears to be the work of the fantastic. The soul deals with the body (it explains the importance of pornography in Romains’ books), and Romains develops what one may call a hypocrisy logic. According to him, man should flee from a universe that is in the grip of war, and where there is no place for unanimism. However, the only recourse, for men of good will, is to be apparently in collusion with the criminal cosmos, to side with appearances against substance, with absence against presence. The language consequently enters into a perilous process of becoming-rhetorical, thereby metamorphosing into the dynamic locus of an almost hopeless struggle against death and time.