Afhandling--Aarhus, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. [365]-379. Index. Résumé en anglais.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : linguistique française et latine : Paris 3 : 1991. / ISBN de l'édition imprimée : 2-7453-0263-9. Titre provenant de la page de titre. Bibliogr. Index.

An Obscure Man by Marguerite Yourcenar is the novelist's heritage to posterity. By Yourcenar's own admission, it constitutes her spiritual and literary testament. In this novel, her poetics of self-effacement reaches its culminating point, where Nathanael is portrayed as a protagonist free of any constraints because he exhibits no desire or ambition. The author paints a character who incarnates a constant passive state. But by doing so, one could argue that it is the work of fiction itself that is put into question, as Nathanael's triviality and insignificance --- hence his exemplary conduct --- represents a great threat to the novel as an ontological entity with its own set of rules. And so we ask: for a writer whose aesthetics are closely tied to ethics, particularly to those higher values of lucidity and humility peculiar to Yourcenar's philosophy, does the novel still have a claim to existence? In other words, if there is no illusion, what is left of the novel?

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Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Added t.p., with thesis statement, inserted.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Mordecaui S. Rubin. Dissertation Committee: Maxine Greene. Bibliography: leaves 148-151.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 572-604) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999. / Thesis advisor: Dr. M.-C. Rohinsky. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in French." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [i]-vi).