In 1949, Frederic Dard created a character named San-Antonio and he decided to dedicate a series of novels to it. The latter amounts to, up to this day, one hundred and sixty eight titles, to which we must add several outside the series. How can we explain the readers, craze for such works? A possible explanation resides in the quite particular style which distinguishes them. There are any number of neologisms and various styles and levels of language are merrily mixed therein, reminding us of the Rabelaisian tongue to which it is often compared. But shall we end the parallel between San-Antonio and Rabelais solely at the level of linguistics? After reading Mikhail Bakhtine's study devoted to Francois Rabelais et carnivalesque literature, it seems that this comparison must be taken much further. The distance taken by San-Antonio toward the classic detective novel seem to indicate a strong level of carnivalisation and that is what we will study in this thesis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.28040 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Aubertin, Marie-Andrée. |
| Contributors | Smith, Andre (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001608562, proquestno: MQ43830, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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