L'écriture des marges en littérature contemporaine de non-fiction : cas de Jean Rolin, Jean Marc Turine et Philippe Vasset

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Supervisors

Piret, Pierre

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité approfondie

Abstract

enThe present thesis studies the way Jean Rolin, Jean Marc Turine and Philippe Vasset approach the margins in their texts presented as non-fictional. These three contemporary writers are the authors of narratives - which can be situated between literature and reportage - in which they stage themselves in the process of observing a determined historical and social reality, whether it be the suburbs of large French cities and the poverty of those who live there, the daily life of the inhabitants of the Comoros, or the lives marked by wars. These realities have in common their marginality because those who undergo them are made invisible in the public space. The three authors of the corpus studied will therefore give a representation of them based on details that will then play the role of clues, bringing their texts closer to journalistic investigations, but the hypotheses they put forward result from a certain imaginative capacity on their part and thus, are like fiction. The question of the definition and the representation of the real is then quickly raised. On several levels, the texts studied cultivate a certain opacity and show that the real is a sum of multiple singularities that are difficult to represent via traditional language. The present thesis will then see how the writers studied invent another language, literary, to adequately report on it. This language constitutes in itself their way of getting involved because while often refusing an explicitly militant posture, the three writers adopt a subversive discourse which, by being situated beyond the literary and journalistic frameworks, offers to the margins a "line of escape" and allows them to resist to the standardization. Thus, this dissertation is part of the immense field of contemporary literature, in some places still very little cleared. Needless to say, the context surrounding the works studied is constantly changing and some of its constituents are sometimes sensitive. The present work shows how literature opens new ways to the representation - and then to the resistance - of realities traditionally discredited by the dominant discourses, but not less important. By this way, a certain social and political effectiveness can be recognized to contemporary literature, and to this thesis.