The first part of this thesis offers an analysis of the overtures and clausulas found in The Surveillant, a collection of short stories written by Québec author Gaetan Brulotte. Literary methods are treated in accordance with the functions and forms of intensification that said methods suggest to the reader. Such treatment demonstrates the strategic importance of beginning and end of a text. Furthermore, the interpretation of these different writing techniques shed a new light on author's writing. The second part of this thesis is a creation work in the form of various-length short stories written around the theme of waiting. These texts alternately express the hope, disenchantment and force behind women and men of various age and walks of life. There is only one common denominator : they all lie in wait. Apart from this theme, this creation work tries to put emphasis on overtures and clausulas, therefore experimenting the diversity and the effect on the reader.

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