UNE ECRITURE DES POSSIBLES: LES ROMANS DE ROBERT PINGET. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Title
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UNE ECRITURE DES POSSIBLES: LES ROMANS DE ROBERT PINGET. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8203285
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identifier
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8203285
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Creator
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GRUNBERG, MICHELE MIRANDA.
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Contributor
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Prof. Hanna Charney
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Date
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1981
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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What is writing? What is literature? These questions, often posed, may never be answered satisfactorily. Since the beginning of time writers have been confronted by the problem of writing because they do not write as birds sing: writing is work, not just the result of an inborn talent. In the occidental novel of the nineteenth century the themes that repeat are love, hate, ambition, war... In the modern novel writing itself has become a theme. The modern writer, whether by writing or speaking about writing reveals his difficulties and tries to show others and himself how he writes, how "it happens." What a writer might, in earlier times, have disclosed in letters to a privileged correspondant he now reveals in symposiums or papers to those willing to listen and particularly, in the texture of his work, to anyone willing to read him.;This study on the novels of Robert Pinget is centered on the problem of writing. Since 1952, at the tempo of one novel every two or three years, Pinget always returns to the problem of writing. In every one of his novels one or two characters write; at the same time they state what they like to write, how difficult it is to write... They comment upon their work as it proceeds and criticize it without any leniency. I have endeavored, in the first part of the study, to point out those characters and their concerns about writing.;In the second part entitled "What is writing?", I have, aided by the theories of J. Derrida and M. Blanchot, indicated how Pinget evolved, how he went from speech to writing owing to the notions of "voice" and "tone.".;This part also shows how Pinget has created a different literary temporality by his very particular use of the conditional. Another component of this temporality is that Pinget and his surrogate writers often repress their memory faculties and I have noted how their memory returns in the form of a compulsion to repeat.;Just as there are many writers in Pinget's novels, readers are also represented in great numbers. In the third part these readers are singled out and Pinget's theory of reading is defined. I indicate that the notions of reading and writing are not interchangeable but belong to different realms which are closely linked during the process of creation.;Throughout the study Pinget's writing is examined for its aspects of duality, conflict and contradiction. Pinget, among the New Novelists, has always asserted his right to contradiction and particularly to the contradiction of contradiction. Even more than contradiction one should speak of "possibilities," contradiction being only a manifestation of those possibilities, as the notion of contradiction itself is also questioned in Pinget's novels.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
