Les etats-unis dans les oeuvres de truman capote

The united states in the works of truman capote

• Auteur / Autrice : Marie-Claude Audebert
• Direction : Jeanne-Marie Santraud
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Études nord-américaines
• Date : Soutenance en 1987
• Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

Résumé

Les etats-unis sont au centre des oeuvres de l'ecrivain truman capote. Il a subi au cours de sa vie litteraire les influences de la litterature americaine, de ses contemporains et de l'histoire de son pays. Ces influences essentielles americaines sont determinantes dans le developpement litteraire de l'auteur. Son attirance pour les ecrits de fiction journalistique confere a son oeuvre une base reelle, fondee sur l'experience des differentes regions ou l'ecrivain a vecu. La region du sud correspond a la premiere partie de la vie de l'ecrivain et apparait en recit du souvenir de facon cyclique. Il attache a cette region beaucoup d'importance, car elle l'a forme. La ville de new york est associee au deuxieme cycle litteraire et se rapporte a la periode de l'apres seconde guerre mondiale. Cette epoque influencee par le cinema et l'ecriture cinematographique conduit l'ecrivain en californie. L'ouest, partage entre la californie et le kansas, sera la toile de fond de son troisieme cycle litteraire. Ce cycle est fonde sur l'experience, son expression litteraire sera le roman non roman. Ce journalisme litteraire lui permettra une peinture plus factuelle de etats-unis.

The united states are a major theme in the works of truman capote. All along his literary life, he was to be influenced by his contemporaries, the literature and the history of his country. These basic influences are determining for his literary development. The attraction made on him by the literary journalistic writings give to his work a real basis, based upon his experiences of the different areas where he lived. The south was where he lived for the first part of his life and appears periodically as literary memories. He is most devoted to this part because it is where he grew up. New york start the second cycle and is based on the period after the world war ii. At the time, he was influenced by the movie system and by the cinematographic writing and was led to this part of america. The west, california and texas, was to be the area described in his third cycle. This cycle is based upon direct experience; his literary technique