Partant de la conjecture selon laquelle le « théâtre du verbe » de Valère Novarina est moins un phénomène singulier dans le paysage théâtral contemporain qu’une forme d’aboutissement des tentatives d’avant-garde précédentes en quête d’un théâtre dédramatisé fondé sur un langage « inhumanisé », cette étude retrace le chemin spirituel qui relie la pataphysique de Jarry à la logodynamique de Novarina, en passant par le nonsense chez Ionesco et chez Tardieu, chemin sous le signe du jeu verbal. En situant cette dernière notion dans la perspective moderne (anti-utilitaire et anti-anthropocentriste) du langage et du théâtre, le travail s’interroge, dans un premier temps, sur les relations particulières entre le jeu verbal et le théâtre « non dramatique » du XXe siècle. En examinant, dans un second temps, les quatre formes de jeu verbal chez Jarry, Ionesco, Tardieu et Novarina, aussi bien dans les écritures que dans des explorations scéniques, la thèse invite à comprendre le jeu verbal comme une manifestation du doute sur le langage, un pouvoir critique vis-à-vis des conformismes, un appel au changement de perception et au mouvement de toutes les « règles de jeu ». / Starting with the conjecture that Valère Novarina’s “theatre of the verb” is less a singular phenomenon in the contemporary theatrical landscape than a form of culmination of previous attempts to search for a dedramatized theatre based on a “dehumanized” language, this study retraces the spiritual path that connects Jarry’s pataphysics to Novarina’s logodynamics, via the nonsense in Ionesco and Tardieu’s writings, path under the sign of verbal game. By situating this last notion in the modern perspective (anti-utilitarian and anti-anthropocentric) of language and theatre, the study questions, firstly, the particular relations between the verbal game and the “non-dramatic” theatre of the twentieth century. Next, by examining the four forms of verbal game in Jarry, Ionesco, Tardieu and Novarina’s works, both in the scriptures and in scenic explorations, the thesis invites the readers to understand the verbal game as a manifestation of the doubt about the language, a critical power towards conformism, a call for change of perception and for movement of all “rules of the game”.

A presente tese pretende discutir a construção da palavra na obra dramatúrgica do franco-suíço Valère Novarina. Considerado um dos maiores dramaturgos em atividade na França, ele também é encenador, pintor e desenhista. Sua obra, dividida em proposições teóricas, puramente teatrais e o teatro utópico, é construída a partir do preceito de que a palavra deve romper com a comunicação cotidiana e se ligar a sua corporificação no ator. Para dar conta dessas perspectivas, dois aspectos são analisados neste estudo: a ideia de jogos de linguagem cunhada por Ludwig Wittgenstein, aqui utilizada para desenvolver a ênfase novarinesca na palavra desarticulada; e a ideia de vocalidade desenvolvida por Paul Zumthor, que remete às noções corpóreas e fisiológicas construídas na obra de Valère Novarina. Esse estudo teórico é finalizado com uma análise acerca da teoria dos atos de fala de John Austin e sua intersecção com a obra do dramaturgo. Para tanto, analisou-se a produção textual recente de Novarina. Com a prática de republicar textos após a sua encenação, Novarina exalta as transformações realizadas pela cena. Com isso, esta tese se dedicou à análise de três textos do dramaturgo, dos quais dois já estão publicados. Primeiramente foi realizada uma comparação entre os textos Le Vivier des Noms e Entrée Perpértuelle, - este último, versão cênica do livro que foi publicado em 2015. Esse capítulo foi a base para a análise das transformações encontradas no texto escrito, que reverberam as realizações cênicas. Num segundo momento, analisou-se o texto L\'homme hors de lui, ainda não publicado. O texto analisado é uma espécie de arquivo das transformações textuais decorrentes do processo criativo cênico, o qual pode-se acompanhar em 2017, e que deu suporte para indicar como as modificações textuais advém da encenação. Por fim, o estudo finaliza com a apresentação do trecho Les quatre états du Texte, presente no livro Lumières du Corps para traçar paralelos entre o processo criativo de Novarina e o texto que tem base na construção da linguagem no espaço. Seguem-se algumas proposições que aprofundam e reforçam os diversos processos criativos a que o texto de Novarina é vinculado, dando dimensão da riqueza do trabalho do dramaturgo e principalmente da condição performativa de seus textos, mesmo que no papel. / The present thesis intends to argue the construction of the word in the dramaturgical work of the Franco-Swiss Valère Novarina. Recognized as one of the greatest playwrights in activity in France, he is also director, painter and drawer. His work - divided into theoretical propositions, purely theatrical and utopian theater - is built from the precept that the word must break with daily communication and link its embodiment in actor. To account these angles, two aspects are analyzed in this survey: the idea of language games minted by Ludwig Wittgenstein, used here to develop the Novarina\'s emphasis on the disjointed word; and the vocality idea developed by Paul Zumthor, which alludes to corporeal and physiological concepts constructed in Valère Novarina work\'s. We conclude this theoretical study with an analysis of John Austin\'s theory of speech acts and his intersection with the playwright\'s work. For this, was reviwed the recent Novarina\'s textual production. With the practice of republishing texts after performance season, Novarina exalts the transformations made by the scene. Thus, this thesis engaged to analysis three playwright\'s texts, two of which are already published. Firstily we compare the texts Le Vivier des Noms and Entrée Perpértuelle, - the latter, the book\'s scenic version that was published in 2015. This chapter was the basis for the analysis of the transformations found in the written text, which reverberate the scenic achievements. In a second moment, was analyze the text L\'homme hors de lui, not yet published. The text analyzed is kind of archive of the textual transformations resulting from the scenic creative process, which can be followed in 2017, and which gave support to indicate how the textual modifications come from the performance. Finally, the study ends with the presentation of the excerpt Les Quatre États du Texte, present in the book Lumières du Corps to draw parallels between the creative process of Novarina and the text that is based on the construction of language in space. These are followed by some thesis that deepen and reinforce the sundry creative processes to which Novarina\'s text is linked, giving a dimension of playwright work\'s tichness and mainly of the performative condition of his texts, even if on paper.

A presente tese pretende discutir a construção da palavra na obra dramatúrgica do franco-suíço Valère Novarina. Considerado um dos maiores dramaturgos em atividade na França, ele também é encenador, pintor e desenhista. Sua obra, dividida em proposições teóricas, puramente teatrais e o teatro utópico, é construída a partir do preceito de que a palavra deve romper com a comunicação cotidiana e se ligar a sua corporificação no ator. Para dar conta dessas perspectivas, dois aspectos são analisados neste estudo: a ideia de jogos de linguagem cunhada por Ludwig Wittgenstein, aqui utilizada para desenvolver a ênfase novarinesca na palavra desarticulada; e a ideia de vocalidade desenvolvida por Paul Zumthor, que remete às noções corpóreas e fisiológicas construídas na obra de Valère Novarina. Esse estudo teórico é finalizado com uma análise acerca da teoria dos atos de fala de John Austin e sua intersecção com a obra do dramaturgo. Para tanto, analisou-se a produção textual recente de Novarina. Com a prática de republicar textos após a sua encenação, Novarina exalta as transformações realizadas pela cena. Com isso, esta tese se dedicou à análise de três textos do dramaturgo, dos quais dois já estão publicados. Primeiramente foi realizada uma comparação entre os textos Le Vivier des Noms e Entrée Perpértuelle, - este último, versão cênica do livro que foi publicado em 2015. Esse capítulo foi a base para a análise das transformações encontradas no texto escrito, que reverberam as realizações cênicas. Num segundo momento, analisou-se o texto L\'homme hors de lui, ainda não publicado. O texto analisado é uma espécie de arquivo das transformações textuais decorrentes do processo criativo cênico, o qual pode-se acompanhar em 2017, e que deu suporte para indicar como as modificações textuais advém da encenação. Por fim, o estudo finaliza com a apresentação do trecho Les quatre états du Texte, presente no livro Lumières du Corps para traçar paralelos entre o processo criativo de Novarina e o texto que tem base na construção da linguagem no espaço. Seguem-se algumas proposições que aprofundam e reforçam os diversos processos criativos a que o texto de Novarina é vinculado, dando dimensão da riqueza do trabalho do dramaturgo e principalmente da condição performativa de seus textos, mesmo que no papel. / The present thesis intends to argue the construction of the word in the dramaturgical work of the Franco-Swiss Valère Novarina. Recognized as one of the greatest playwrights in activity in France, he is also director, painter and drawer. His work - divided into theoretical propositions, purely theatrical and utopian theater - is built from the precept that the word must break with daily communication and link its embodiment in actor. To account these angles, two aspects are analyzed in this survey: the idea of language games minted by Ludwig Wittgenstein, used here to develop the Novarina\'s emphasis on the disjointed word; and the vocality idea developed by Paul Zumthor, which alludes to corporeal and physiological concepts constructed in Valère Novarina work\'s. We conclude this theoretical study with an analysis of John Austin\'s theory of speech acts and his intersection with the playwright\'s work. For this, was reviwed the recent Novarina\'s textual production. With the practice of republishing texts after performance season, Novarina exalts the transformations made by the scene. Thus, this thesis engaged to analysis three playwright\'s texts, two of which are already published. Firstily we compare the texts Le Vivier des Noms and Entrée Perpértuelle, - the latter, the book\'s scenic version that was published in 2015. This chapter was the basis for the analysis of the transformations found in the written text, which reverberate the scenic achievements. In a second moment, was analyze the text L\'homme hors de lui, not yet published. The text analyzed is kind of archive of the textual transformations resulting from the scenic creative process, which can be followed in 2017, and which gave support to indicate how the textual modifications come from the performance. Finally, the study ends with the presentation of the excerpt Les Quatre États du Texte, present in the book Lumières du Corps to draw parallels between the creative process of Novarina and the text that is based on the construction of language in space. These are followed by some thesis that deepen and reinforce the sundry creative processes to which Novarina\'s text is linked, giving a dimension of playwright work\'s tichness and mainly of the performative condition of his texts, even if on paper.

Cette thèse s’intéresse à la lisibilité de la littérature — à la lisibilité d’une certaine littérature : française, contemporaine, une littérature qu’on classe plus souvent qu’autrement du côté du champ poétique. Au départ, un simple constat : certains livres sont difficiles à lire. Parfois, on va même jusqu’à dire qu’ils sont illisibles; si ce jugement ne saurait fournir un concept rigoureux pour décrire les textes, il soulève toutefois un certain nombre de questions qui, elles, sont au cœur de cette thèse. Car il n’y a rien d’illisible en soi : l’illisible n’est pas une propriété, mais un jugement qui traduit une impasse de lecture. Ainsi, les verdicts d’illisibilités ont des causes et des conséquences très variées. L’illisible est situé : on peut difficilement l’aborder hors de ses circonstances, puisqu’il renvoie moins à un contenu spécifique qu’à une expérience. Il ne s’agit donc pas, ici, de lever l’incompréhension que l’on peut ressentir devant certains textes, mais bien d’interroger la place qu’elle occupe dans nos façons de lire et dans notre rapport à la littérature. Cette thèse se propose de réfléchir à ces questions en abordant, sous le mode du dialogue, les œuvres de Jean-Michel Reynard, Christophe Tarkos, Denis Roche, Anne-Marie Albiach, Jean-Marie Gleize, Christian Prigent, Valère Novarina et Pierre Guyotat. Ces œuvres n’occupent pas toutes la même place dans cette thèse. En ce sens, l’objectif n’est pas de les épuiser mais de soulever un certain nombre de questions à travers elles. Des questions différentes selon les œuvres, selon les écrivains, mais qui sont traversées par un même fil conducteur : l’expérience littéraire. À partir de situations chaque fois singulières, il s’agit ainsi d’éclairer certains aspects, certaines modalités de l’expérience littéraire. Les deux pôles de cette expérience sont ici l’écriture et la lecture, auxquelles il faut associer les figures de l’écrivain et du lecteur, qui occupent dans cette thèse une place centrale. La perspective est donc généraliste, qui soulève des questions tantôt poïétiques, axées sur la façon dont les écrivains vivent la genèse de leurs œuvres, et tantôt plus poétiques, voire politiques, qui renvoient plutôt à la façon dont les lecteurs font à leur tour l’expérience de ces textes à la singularité parfois radicale. En somme, les objectifs de cette thèse sont : 1) d’éclairer sous un nouvel angle les œuvres étudiées; 2) à travers leur exemple problématique, de poser les bases d’une réflexion sur la lisibilité, qui accorde une large place à la posture des écrivains et à la façon dont ils vivent la genèse de leurs œuvres; et 3) de contribuer aux études sur la genèse, la réception et la médiation des œuvres littéraires en réfléchissant à nos façons de vivre (avec) la littérature. / This dissertation focuses on the readability of literature—on the readability of a certain literature: French, contemporary, a literature that is more often than not classified in the poetic field. At first, a simple observation: some books are difficult to read. Sometimes we even get so far as to say they are unreadable; if this judgment cannot provide a rigorous concept to describe the texts, it nevertheless raises a number of questions which are at the heart of this dissertation. For there is nothing unreadable in itself: the unreadable is not a property, but a judgment that translates an impasse in reading. Thus, the verdicts of unreadability have varied causes and consequences. The unreadable is situated: it is difficult to approach it outside of its circumstances, since it refers less to a specific content than to an experience. The objective here is not to alleviate the misunderstanding that can be felt in front of certain texts, but rather to question the place it occupies in our ways of reading and our relation to literature. This dissertation proposes to reflect on these questions by approaching the works of Jean-Michel Reynard, Christophe Tarkos, Denis Roche, Anne-Marie Albiach, Christian Prigent, Valère Novarina and Pierre Guyotat. These works do not all have the same place in this dissertation. In this sense, the aim is not to exhaust them but to raise a number of questions through them. Different questions according to the works, according to the writers, but which are crossed by a common thread: the literary experience. From singular situations, the goal is thus to understand certain aspects, certain modalities of the literary experience. The two poles of this experience are writing and reading—related to those are the figures of the writer and the reader, which occupy an important place in this dissertation. Therefore, the perspective is broad, which raises questions sometimes of poietic, centred on the way writers live the creation of their works, and sometimes more of poetic, even politic, which rather refer to the ways in which readers, on their side, experience these radically singular texts. In short, the objectives of this dissertation are: 1) to study these works from a new angle; 2) through their problematic example, to lay the foundations for a reflection on readability that gives a large place to the writers’ posture and the way they live the creation of their works; and 3) to contribute to studies on creation, reception and mediation of literary works by reflecting on our ways of living (with) literature.