| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Driessen, Julie
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| Author's Email Address |
jdriess@lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-11112005-113750 |
| Title |
Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots and the Nouvelles Autobiographies of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras: A Comparison |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
| Department |
French Studies |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Kevin Bongiorni |
Committee Chair |
| Greg Stone |
Committee Member |
| John Pizer |
Committee Member |
| John Protevi |
Committee Member |
| Kevin Risk |
Dean's Representative |
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| Keywords |
- sartre
- autobiography
- nouveau roman
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| Date of Defense |
2005-10-13 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
Jean-Paul Sartre's autobiography Les Mots (1964) is shown to be a departure from the Sartrean oeuvre because it represents an abandonment of littérature engagée. In Les Mots Sartre not only abandons littérature engagée, but also embraces a view of literature which he formerly opposed--l'art pour l'art. Sartre defines his views of literature--littérature engagée--in Qu'est-ce que la littérature? (1948) Robbe-Grillet defines l'art pour l'art in Pour un nouveau roman (1963). In Les Mots Sartre embraces Robbe-Grillet's l'art pour l'art and abandons his own littérature engagée. Since these two views of literature are theoretically opposed, it is interesting to find that Sartre makes this one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. Sartre's shifted view of literature, as represented in Les Mots, is further supported by a comparison of it to the autobiographies of a selection of Nouveaux Romanciers: Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Miroir qui revient (1984), Nathalie Sarraute's L'Enfance (1983), and Marguerite Duras's L'Amant (1984). The autobiographies of the Nouveaux Romanciers are used as illustrations of Robbe-Grillet's notion of l'art pour l'art. Although Sarraute and Duras do not claim allegiance to Robbe-Grillet's view of literature, nor to the name "Nouveau Romancier," their autobiographies are similar enough to Robbe-Grillet's that they seem to be part of his school of thought. The relationship between Sartre and Robbe-Grillet adds to the irony of Sartre's shifted view of literature. Sartre rejects practitioners of l'art pour l'art in Qu'est-ce que la literature? and Robbe-Grillet specifically rejects Sartre and his littérature engagée in Pour un nouveau roman.
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