Marguerite Yourcenar was a prolific writer and we can deduce that in the course of her writings, the revised version played a very important role. Thus, several pieces of works such as D'apres Rembrandt, D'apres Greco, D'apres Durer gave birth to L'OEuvre au noir, Anna soror..., Un homme obscur and Une belle matinee. Denier du reve was rewritten twenty years later. The collection of short stories Nouvelles orientales underwent numerous changes during the course of more than fifty years. / The "double" theme marks the different narratives of this work and the revised phenomena contributes to the emergence in all its elements. Therefore, all through this thesis, we will show the events which reveals the presence of the "double" such as a story within a story (mise en abyme) and flashbacks that are present in the narration, the theme of remembrance, the different microcosms contained in the macrocosms, but also the opposing split personalities present in most of the protagonists. In addition, we can discover that these characters are united in creation and in all elements of the cosmos. Also, we have the production of opposing forces between creation and man. In Yourcenar's work, especially in Nouvelles orientales, we notice that in the "double" an absolute quest is presented in its different play of mirrors. It is as if this fusion of the human with the universe brings each character to be part of the Universality, beyond time, space and the world of the material.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.31099 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | De Blois, Isabelle. |
| Contributors | Desrosiers-Bonin, Diane (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: 001810973, proquestno: MQ70278, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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