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Le surréalisme et la mort

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Auteur / Autrice : Thierry Aubert
Direction : Henri Béhar
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Littérature française
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

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Starting from the antagonism between death and a society centred on the individual, surrealism adopts various approaches, thanks to which its texts succeed in producing, associated with a reflection on myth, representations that increase the standing of modern atheist individual and integrate the irremediable fact of his death. Firstly, a network of signs associated with death helps avoid a merely dichotomic perception of individual existence. It concerns all aspects of surrealist experience - not only spatio-temporal perception, or the creatures met, but also the representation of the individual. Moreover, surrealists endeavour to define the significance of phenomenon of death proper. They also determine several possible relationships of the individual with death, from two exterme attitudes : union with death or tension between death and life. Finally, the act of writing itself partakes of individual though regarding death. It seems to be a true transcription of death. This is especially obvious in the resort to humour, the choice between different kinds of writing or the way of ending the text