Th. doct.--Lettres--Genève--Faculté des lettres de l'Université, 1988.

Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), poeta neoclássico italiano, é considerado uma figura de relevo na Literatura Italiana e universal. Apesar disso, é muito pouco conhecido dos leitores de língua portuguesa. Foi precursor da prosa moderna italiana com um romance epistolar de caráter pré-romântico, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, nunca traduzido para o português. O intuito desta dissertação é apresentar o autor ao público brasileiro, por meio desse romance. O trabalho conta com uma análise da obra, acompanhada de uma seleção de cartas traduzidas, comentadas e anotadas, levando em conta os aspectos históricos, literários, estilísticos e temáticos. No capítulo 1, tratamos da vida e obra do autor; em seguida, das Ultime lettere: seu conteúdo e crítica; no capítulo 2, das características do romance epistolar, do seu aspecto formal, dos temas que aparecem no romance, das obras e autores que o influenciaram, e que nele são mencionados; no capítulo 3, do trabalho e das idéias de Foscolo a respeito de tradução; dos critérios adotados nesta dissertação para a escolha e tradução das cartas que se encontram no final do volume. O critério para a tradução das cartas levou em conta idéias sugeridas pelo próprio Foscolo e discutidas no capítulo 3; recorreu-se também a várias edições da obra em italiano, a traduções para o inglês e espanhol, a dicionários especializados e à leitura de autores brasileiros e portugueses contemporâneos de Foscolo, com o objetivo de se produzir um texto que refletisse a linguagem da época. A tradução vem acompanhada de notas que visam esclarecer ao leitor alusões históricas e literárias e problemas textuais do romance / Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian classical poet, is considered to be an important name in both Italian and universal literature. Nevertheless he is almost unknown to the readers in Portuguese language. He was the precursor of modern Italian prose due to his epistolary novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), a Pre-Romantic work never translated into Portuguese. The aim of this dissertation is to present, through this novel, the author to the Brazilian reader. It includes an analysis of the novel, followed by a selection of commented and annotated translated letters, considering their historical, literary, stylistics and thematic aspects. In the first chapter we discuss first the author´s life and work, and then Last Letters: its contents and the critics about it. In the second chapter we discuss the characteristic of the epistolary novel, its formal aspects, the themes inside the novel, the works and the authors that influenced it - and are mentioned in it. In the third chapter, we discuss Foscolo´s works and ideas on translation, the criterion adopted here to chose and translate the letters in the end of the volume. Our translation criterion is based on Foscolo´s ideas discussed in the third chapter. We also consulted several editions of the work in Italian, its English and Spanish translations and specialized dictionaries. We have read several Brazilian and Portuguese writers who lived in the same time as Foscolo with the aim of producing a text reflecting the language of Foscolo´s time. Following the translation there are notes explaining historical and literary allusions or textual difficulties of the novel

Le succès éditorial et critique de l'Oraison sur l'origine et l'office de la littérature (1809) de Foscolo a laissé dans l'ombre les autres textes du corpus des cours que l'écrivain italien assura à l'Université de Pavie. Ce travail souhaite éclairer cet aspect de l'œuvre de Foscolo, souvent négligé par la critique littéraire. A cette fin nous reconstruisons l'activité d'enseignement de Foscolo à Pavie et la place qu'elle assume dans sa réflexion littéraire et philosophique. Les cours concentrent à eux tous seuls bon nombre de motifs-clé de sa production littéraire. Ils catalysent les suggestions provenant de ses lectures et des débats littéraires des années précédentes qui avaient nourri une réflexion restée jusque-là à l'état fragmentaire tout en préparant la systématisation de sa pensée critique qui caractérise la production de sa période anglaise (1817-1827). En particulier, dans ces cours, Foscolo poursuit deux objectifs principaux : 1) définir la fonction civique de l'homme de lettres à travers une nouvelle caractérisation éthique et politique de l'éloquence ; 2) formuler un projet éducatif qui s'adresse à la classe moyenne, d'où émerge la nécessité de créer une langue unitaire et une tradition littéraire nationale et la revendication d'un nouveau modèle d'historiographie qui dépasse les limites de l'érudition du XVIIIe siècle. Cette étude est complétée par la reconstruction de l'histoire éditoriale des cours et leur commentaire. Le texte revu et corrigé critiquement (par rapport à la dernière édition, celle d'Emilio Santini, qui ne rend pas compte d'importantes corrections et variantes) sert de base pour le commentaire, une annotation critique et historique qui illustre les sources utilisées par Foscolo et de usage, direct ou indirect, qu'il en fit dans sa réflexion littéraire, philosophique et linguistique / The positive reviews – both editorial and critical – achieved by Foscolo's 1809 lecture On the origin and duty of literature have overshadowed the Italian author's text corpus of the classes he's given at the University of Pavia. This study is willing to explain this specific aspect of Foscolo's work, often skipped by literary criticism. For this aim we reenact Foscolo's teaching experience in Pavia and the importance of it in His philosophical and literary thought. His classes alone include a good number of key themes of His literary work. Those catalyze the suggestions coming from his readings and the literary debates of the previous years, that have fed His thinking, at that time still in development , but soon to be settled in His critical thought, clearly visible in His English period work (1817-1827). In these classes particularly, Foscolo tries to reach two primary goals: 1) to define the civil duties of a literary man by a new ethical and political definition of oratory; 2) to create an educational project for the middle class; hence it bursts the need for creating a common unitary language and a national literary tradition as well as the assert of a new historiographical model, able to go beyond the Eighteenth Century scholarship boundaries. This study is concluded with a timeline reconstruction of the publishing history of His classes and their commentary. Such text lessons, critically revised and corrected (compared to their last edition available – edited by Emilio Santini – that failed to consider important revisions and different versions) are the foundation of the commentary, a critical and historical marginalia showing the sources used by Foscolo and of the use – either directly or indirectly – he made in His literary, philosophical and linguistic thought

Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), poeta neoclássico italiano, é considerado uma figura de relevo na Literatura Italiana e universal. Apesar disso, é muito pouco conhecido dos leitores de língua portuguesa. Foi precursor da prosa moderna italiana com um romance epistolar de caráter pré-romântico, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis, nunca traduzido para o português. O intuito desta dissertação é apresentar o autor ao público brasileiro, por meio desse romance. O trabalho conta com uma análise da obra, acompanhada de uma seleção de cartas traduzidas, comentadas e anotadas, levando em conta os aspectos históricos, literários, estilísticos e temáticos. No capítulo 1, tratamos da vida e obra do autor; em seguida, das Ultime lettere: seu conteúdo e crítica; no capítulo 2, das características do romance epistolar, do seu aspecto formal, dos temas que aparecem no romance, das obras e autores que o influenciaram, e que nele são mencionados; no capítulo 3, do trabalho e das idéias de Foscolo a respeito de tradução; dos critérios adotados nesta dissertação para a escolha e tradução das cartas que se encontram no final do volume. O critério para a tradução das cartas levou em conta idéias sugeridas pelo próprio Foscolo e discutidas no capítulo 3; recorreu-se também a várias edições da obra em italiano, a traduções para o inglês e espanhol, a dicionários especializados e à leitura de autores brasileiros e portugueses contemporâneos de Foscolo, com o objetivo de se produzir um texto que refletisse a linguagem da época. A tradução vem acompanhada de notas que visam esclarecer ao leitor alusões históricas e literárias e problemas textuais do romance / Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian classical poet, is considered to be an important name in both Italian and universal literature. Nevertheless he is almost unknown to the readers in Portuguese language. He was the precursor of modern Italian prose due to his epistolary novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis), a Pre-Romantic work never translated into Portuguese. The aim of this dissertation is to present, through this novel, the author to the Brazilian reader. It includes an analysis of the novel, followed by a selection of commented and annotated translated letters, considering their historical, literary, stylistics and thematic aspects. In the first chapter we discuss first the author´s life and work, and then Last Letters: its contents and the critics about it. In the second chapter we discuss the characteristic of the epistolary novel, its formal aspects, the themes inside the novel, the works and the authors that influenced it - and are mentioned in it. In the third chapter, we discuss Foscolo´s works and ideas on translation, the criterion adopted here to chose and translate the letters in the end of the volume. Our translation criterion is based on Foscolo´s ideas discussed in the third chapter. We also consulted several editions of the work in Italian, its English and Spanish translations and specialized dictionaries. We have read several Brazilian and Portuguese writers who lived in the same time as Foscolo with the aim of producing a text reflecting the language of Foscolo´s time. Following the translation there are notes explaining historical and literary allusions or textual difficulties of the novel

Il s’agit de reprendre la question autobiographique à l’époque où le genre se constitue en Europe, au premier XIXe siècle, en déplaçant le regard vers les marges du genre. Les œuvres de Jean Paul, d’Ugo Foscolo, de Stendhal et de Gérard de Nerval sont d’abord étudiées sous l’angle de la poétique des genres dont elles déstabilisent les catégories. La thèse déplace la question générique en soulevant les enjeux éthiques et politiques du récit de soi qui sont liés à l’expérience du sujet et du temps. À côté de ce qui deviendra le canon en matière d’autobiographie se dessine une autre ligne autobiographique qui, en souvenir de Laurence Sterne, se place sous le signe de l’imagination et de l’arabesque. Les œuvres du corpus mettent en évidence la ligne de poésie de la vie et du sujet. Ces poétiques autobiographiques excentriques manifestent une dissemblance de soi, du temps et de l’histoire. Elles mettent en crise l’identité pensée comme « mêmeté » et l’idée d’un temps homogène. Le soi n’est pas un ; l’autobiographe n’est seul ni dans sa peau, ni dans sa langue, ni dans sa plume ; il se déplace entre les lieux et entre les langues, ne trouvant pas d’assise. La figure de l’auteur est plurielle et collective, en rupture avec le mythe du génie. Aux transfigurations de soi s’ajoutent les transfigurations de la mémoire qui ressaisit le passé au présent et pour l’avenir. Expérience mélancolique de revenance, le récit de soi multiplie les fantômes qui sont le signe d’un deuil personnel et des disjonctions de l’histoire. Témoignant des révolutions du siècle, l’autobiographe ouvre aussi l’histoire individuelle et collective : le récit de soi est prospectif. C’est une mémoire au futur. / The thesis takes up the question of autobiography by focusing on works at the margins of the genre during the early 19th century, the period in which autobiographical writing in Europe came into its own. The works of Jean Paul, Ugo Foscolo, Stendhal and Gérard de Nerval destabilize established generic and canonic categories. They do so by pointing to the ethical and political issues at stake in the narration of the self, which are in turn linked to the experience of the subject and of time. The thesis thereby identifies and explores another autobiographical “line” emerging alongside canonical forms of the genre, a “line” which recalls Laurence Sterne through the use of arabesques and the reliance upon imagination in life narratives. These works emphasize the “line of poetry” which constitutes life and the subject. The poetics of these eccentric autobiographical works explores dissemblance in writing the self, time, and history. They question reductive understandings of identity as ‘sameness’ and conceptions of time as homogenous. The self is not ‘one’; the autobiographer is alone neither in his body, nor in his language, nor in the act of writing. Rather, he is in constant movement between places and languages, unable to establish a stable grounding for his narrative. The author’s persona is multiple and collective, inverting the myth of the romantic genius. Such transfigurations of the self are tied to transfigurations of memory, which allow for the past to be reenacted in the present and for the future. This melancholic experience is also one of haunting, for narratives of the self draw on the figure of the phantom as a sign of mourning for both personal and historical disjunctions. As witnesses of recent or contemporary revolutions, the autobiographers stress the incomplete nature of both individual and collective history, that is, the potential that such history contains. Narrating the self is therefore prospective; it is memory addressing the future.