In Andre Langevin's five novels, the theme of isolation keeps on coming back. The characters however try by different means to establish a communication with other people but their attempts almost always fail, due to some sort of fatality. / This thesis sheds light on the different attempts by Langevin's characters to establish a relationship with those who surround them. The corpus is composed of Poussiere sur la ville (1953), Le temps des hommes (1956), L'Elan d'Amerique (1972), the latter belonging to the come back of the novelist after a silence of about twenty years. The dialogues and non verbal communications as they are established among the characters will successively be analyzed. The third novel, L'Elan d'Amerique, brings unique forms of this theme as it introduces a new style of the author, which has been compared to the "nouveau roman's". / From one novel to the other, the topic of incommunicability as developed by Langevin, takes new forms as the novelistic scope expands. But this research reveals that, in these three novels, a failure is always witnessed by the characters who never succeed in establishing satisfactory or lasting relationships with others.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.60064 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Garneau, Véronique |
| 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: 001224805, proquestno: AAIMM67792, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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