Peter rosegger (1843-1918), poete du terroir perdu. La critique d'un mythe

Peter rosegger, (1843-1918), the poet of the forsaken native soil. A critical study of a myth

• Auteur / Autrice : EVA PHILIPPOFF MIESES
• Direction : Jean-Marie Valentin
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Études germaniques
• Date : Soutenance en 1992
• Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

Mots clés

Mots clés libres

Etudes germaniques

Litterature du 19e siecle

Rosegger peter

Terroir

Poesie

Mythe

Résumé

Peter rosegger (1843-1918), ecrivain populaire autrichien, illustra de facon exemplaire la litterature du terroir. Issu d'une famille paysanne et autodidacte. Il resta toute sa vie, malgre le succes et la gloire, attache a son milieu d'origine qu'il erigea, face a la vie industrialisee et citadine, en modele ethique et social. Doit-on voir en lui un precurseur du courant vitaliste aux prolongations nefastes, ou est-il, malgre ses prises de position en face de l7actualite, une ame naive, ''a la recherche du temps perdu''? la methode psychocritique permet de repondre a cette question: l'oeuvre du poete-prophete est la consequence d'un traumatisme vecu anterieurement - l'abandon des siens et de sa glebe a l'age de vingt ans - et l'appel pressant qu'il ne cesse de lancer a l'humanite pour un retour a la campagne est une entreprise de rachat dictee par le repentir.

Peter rosegger, the austrian folk-writer, conspicuously enhanced the literature of the native soil. A self-educated son of a poor peasant, he relained throught his life, for all his triumphs and glorious renown, faithful to his native environment, which he set up as a paragon of moral and social virtues against the industrialized way of life in modern cities. Is he to be regarded as a forerunner of the vitalist trent, with its ominous consequences, or was he, despite his positions concerning passing events, merely a candid soul searching into hygone days? the psycho-critical methos offers several clues to answer the question: the prophet-poet's productions were the resultingy effects of an early-suffered traumatism, when he had left his folk and soil at the age of twenty, and the pressing request he untiringly repeated for all mankind to go back to and live in the country was but an endeavour to redeem his former misconduct through repentance.