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To what can we attribute the attachment of novelists—a good number of them in any case—to the history and memory of their art? Why does it traverse and often motivate the vast body of their comments on fiction? At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this attachment also referred to the novel's success as the main literary genre (a success that called for selecting and tracing paths through a prodigious and ever-increasing output) and the reality that its memory today is more fragile than that of other genres and other arts. A genre without rules or a fixed model, fiction, to be recognized, insists that we recall what it has been—an effort that demands greater care and attention within a context of aesthetic renewal comparable to that of the twentieth century while it lasted. But another reason for novelists' attachment to the history and memory of fiction is that it deals with the experience of duration and transformation. This means that its own narratives are always, in one way or another, narratives of time and change.
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Why does André Belleau claim that “What's obscene for us is culture”? What is the meaning of this surprising and paradoxical idea that is the crux of a short essay, “Culture populaire et culture ‘sérieuse' dans le roman québécois”, published in Liberté in 1977? The article attempts to answer these questions by focusing on the shameful and conflictual quality which, according to Belleau, is assigned to culture in Quebec “as distance and as depth”.
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Les fondations de ce mémoire reposent sur l'examen de trois figures de la littérature universelle : Lear, OEdipe et Werther. Fruits du génie de Shakespeare, de Sophocle et de Goethe, ces personnages, confrontés à une force qui leur est supérieure, entrent dans un processus d'autodestruction qui ne semble avoir pour fin que l'assouvissement d'une vengeance. En effet, que penser de ce vieux monarque respecté de ses sujets, qui, après avoir donné les clés de son royaume en héritage puis s'être fait spolier par ses filles aînées, persiste à vouloir se dépouiller et s'enfonce dans la folie? Que dire de cet autre vieillard aveugle, roi jadis vénéré, que le désaveu de ses fils a poussé à l'errance et dont l'ultime volonté est d'offrir à Athènes sa …