The result of formal and thematic research undertaken by the author in the1880s, Maupassant's Le Horla (1887), owing to its originality, became a fantastic literature classic. Constituted from the recycling of several passages of independent texts among which La Lettre d'un fou (1885) and Le Horla published in 1886, the tale, built by recoveries and variations, offers a completely relevant exploratory way for genetic research. By studying the differences between the Horla manuscript (1887) and short stories which present themselves as genesis elements of the text, we will perform the genetic rise of the famous text in order to refine our knowledge of Maupassant's thematic and stylistic evolution as well as clarifying the poetics of his fantastic.

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In this thesis entitled "Guy de Maupassant: l'engendrement du romanesque", the author proposes to demonstrate that Maupassant's six novels constitute a "trajectory", a progression driven and informed by an underlying logic. Proceeding from a psychoanalytical point of view, the author has uncovered another novel, an unspoken novel, that unfolds with Maupassant's novelistic production. This "other novel" expresses the engendering of the subject, which can be defined as the son-subject's liberation from the primal maternal dominion, thanks to the process of identification with the father. / Maupassant's six novels mark various stages in this trajectory. The primal novel Une vie establishes the problematics of the maternal dominion. In Bel-Ami can be seen the formation of the matrix of identity, which coincides with the emergence of the son-subject. The two central novels, Mont-Oriol and Pierre et Jean, illustrate the traumatic experience of paternity and filiation; the latter novel shows the relinquishment of narcissistic defense mechanism. Subsequently, in Fort comme la mort, the repressed narcissistic wound can be analysed. With the final novel, Notre coeur, the son-subject achieves the father position, thus escaping the madness associated with the double-bind of the ambivalent mother. / Previous criticism devoted to the works of Guy de Maupassant has focussed on the thematic obsession of paternity and filiation. This thesis sets out to demonstrate that this obsession is also the very principle driving the engenderment of the novel.

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This master's thesis on literary writing consists of two separate parts. The first is a critique which discusses the problem of perceiving madness through reason in a selection of Guy de Maupassant's short stories. An analysis of the dialogue of the characters who represent reason will reveal that there are strong, strategic ties linking madness and reason. / This critique is followed by a creative work. The story focuses on a recluse who prefers the company of objects to that of people. He is, however, subjected to frequent visits from his "family of fools".

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