This Master's Thesis offers a study of the works of Swiss travel narratives' writer Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998). Bouvier develops a poetics that defines the practical rules of his travels as well as the aesthetic rules of his writing. / These rules form a whole that can be named poetics of transparency and divided into two complementary poles, each linked to themes and images of disappearance or apparition. Both are oriented towards one single goal: to make the world visible for the reader. Seemingly contradictory, the two movements of Bouvier's project are connected by a polyphonic worldview, mirrored in narratives by the interweaving of multiple voices. / Bouvier's work is a model of the travel narrative's evolution in the XXth century. Compared to travel writings of the classical and romantic periods, it appears as a reversed interpretation of the genre's codes, leading it to explore the possibilities of grasping a world poetic rather than objective.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.81488 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Facal, Cécile |
| 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: 002178528, proquestno: AAIMR06505, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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