Syllabus
Intersection of several axes: literature and history, methods and analysis, interpretation
Existentialisme and Phenomenology : Dasein, individual experience, contingence, absurdity; existence versus essence... Sartre and Camus, or Sartre versus Camus ?
Anti-Novel and its rejecting structural categories of traditional form of the Novel : Robbe-Grillet, Butor, Sarraute
Writing as existential experience, touch of the evil and transgression: G. Bataille
Trajectory of critics - 1) Gaston Bachelard - creation, dreaming and "cultural complexe". 2) Georges Poulet - that phenomenology can give the literature. 3) Roland Barthes and the structuralisme.
Annotation
Exile of existence: Outline of phenomenology. Existentialism - J.-P. Sartre and his attempt to consolidate existentialism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. From absurdity and loneliness to the meaning of life: A. Camus and Sysiphos as the archetype of the human deal.
Laboratory of the roman : Robbe-Grillet's paradoxe of objectivism x subjectivism ; Sarraute's "speleology" and exploration of the preconscious ; mythical realism of Butor's La Modification
Temptation of Fragment and of unspeakable/unutterable : Duras
Writing as existential experience, touch of the evil and transgression: this inclassable G. Bataille and the link between literature and evil.
Trajectory of critics 1)Gaston Bachelard - creation, dreaming and "cultural complexe". 2)Georges Poulet - that phenomenology can give the literature. 3)Roland Barthes - the golden age of the structuralisme.