The prevalent frame of 'tourism as vacation' explicitly implies that one vacates 'the familiar' and escapes to 'the foreign'. Discourses of escape, therefore, function on the assumption that a rather clean and uncomplicated rupture between the familiar and foreign takes place (an assumption not only informing conventional readings and practices of tourism, but also the modern logic of states and citizenship and modern thought more broadly). A failure to account for the effects of this escapist logic on both the performance and materialization of tourism, as well as the ways in which tourism has come to reflect profound political problematics endemic to modern thought, has produced a serious gap in 'critical tourism' literature. To contest this notion of rupture, or, to disrupt escape, requires what Judith Butler terms a ‘radical re-articulation’ of tourism. In hopes to excite such a disruption, my work draws on Jacques Derrida’s texts concerning ‘non-arrival’ and ultimately re-articulates tourism as a practice of everyday life.

Romancier reconnu de son vivant, Louis Guilloux n’a néanmoins pas accédé au statut de grand écrivain. Nous voudrions mettre ici en valeur la diversité des formes littéraires exploitées par le romancier, en proposant un parcours générique et diachronique de son œuvre, à partir du Sang noir. L’approche poétique de ses récits sera ancrée dans l’histoire des idées et des représentations. Nous souhaiterions également éclairer les choix esthétiques de Louis Guilloux par les stratégies de positionnement qu’il a adoptées pour renforcer sa place dans le champ littéraire. Nous nous appuierons sur des documents d’archives pour mieux comprendre le geste littéraire de l’écrivain et sa conception du roman. Louis Guilloux s’est distingué par Le Sang noir avec lequel il a renouvelé l’horizon d’attente de la littérature de guerre. Il n’a cessé par la suite d’interroger les rapports entre la fiction et l’Histoire, en problématisant leurs frontières et en s’essayant à des genres en marge du roman, le témoignage et le reportage. Néanmoins, à partir des années cinquante, son œuvre et sa carrière prennent un nouveau tournant. Alors qu’il entre dans une phase de consécration, il aspire à renouveler fondamentalement son art. Les modalités de son engagement politique changent également : il soutient la diffusion de la culture. Louis Guilloux rompt avec son univers romanesque et se réapproprie les codes de la littérature d’évasion. Il s’engage par ailleurs dans un ultime projet autobiographique dans lequel il propose une dernière variation romanesque de son parcours. L’œuvre de Louis Guilloux illustre ainsi une exploration foisonnante du genre romanesque. Elle recouvre également de nombreuses tensions qu’il s’agira d’éclairer. / Although Louis Guilloux was a recognized novelist in his lifetime, he was never considered as a major writer. The purpose of my thesis is to emphasize the diversity of the literary forms he used and to offer a generic as well as a diachronic reading of his work, starting from Le Sang noir. The poetical approach to his narratives will be grounded in the history of ideas and representations. Guilloux’s aesthetic choices will also be discussed in the light of the positioning strategies he adopted to carve out a place for himself in the literary world. Archival documents will be a starting point for a better understanding of the writers’s literary achievements and his conception of the novel. Louis Guilloux became famous for Le Sang noir, which created new expectations for war literature. Subsequently, he ceaselessly explored the link between fiction and history, looking at their dividing line and trying his hand at accounts and reports, two genres close to the novel. However, in the 1950s, he came to a turning point both in his career and his work. Even as he was consecrated as a writer, he became eager to renew his art completely. His political commitment also changed in its form as he now supported the diffusion of culture. Guilloux broke away from the world of his novels and appropriated the codes of escapist literature. Moreover he launched into his last autobiographical attempt, in which he offered one ultimate novelistic variation on his progress. Louis Guilloux’s work thus exemplifies a rich exploration of the novel as a genre. It is also fraught with numerous tensions that will have to be clarified.

The purpose of this thesis was to, in a selected municipality, examine the position of bibliotherapy in reading groups in public libraries. To attain the purpose of the thesis the following questions were asked; What opinions does the librarians in the existing reading groups have on bibliotherapy? What kind of bibliotherapeutic elements exist in the investigated reading groups? Can the reading groups have bibliotherapeutic elements regardless if they were planned for such purposes? Could bibliotherapy be relevant to the public libraries work with the target group mental disabilities in accordance to library law? As a method seven semi-structured qualitative scientific interviews were conducted alongside one web survey. Six of the interviews were implemented with librarians in public libraries and one with two trained bibliotherapists at a hospital library. The theory used was Elizabeth Brewster’s development of Caroline Shrode’s three phases identification, catharsis and insight, where bibliotherapy is divided into four overlapping kinds of bibliotherapy: emotive bibliotherapy, informative bibliotherapy, social bibliotherapy and escapist bibliotherapy. The results show that there are distinct observations of Shrodes three phases in one of the reading groups that fit the description of Brewsters emotive bibliotherapy. In the librarians’ description of the rest of the reading groups, several elements of social, informative and escapist bibliotherapy can also be found. However, in those groups a clear identification of Shrodes theoretical phases are much more elusive, even if there are some similarities. The reading groups’ content of bibliotherapeutic elements appears to be, to some extent, independent of the librarians’ knowledge of bibliotherapeutic terms and denominations. Bibliotherapeutic work seems to be close to unknowingly performed by the librarians in the reading groups, which none the less does not seem to affect its efficiency. Further knowledge about bibliotherapy is assessed to be beneficial to the reading groups in public libraries, which in turn would contribute to the fulfilling of the goals in library law.