Cycnos | Volume 14.2 - La problématique de l'auteur | 1. Approches théoriques

Résumé :

In the wake — or in the margins — of Maurice Couturier’s La figure de l’auteur (1995), this paper explores the elusive and antithetical notion of the “figure”; of the author from the reader’s point of view. Under the aegis of an emblematic genealogy of self-effacing authors, Ulysses as “Nobody”;, Jules Verne’s Capitaine Nemo, and Dickens’s Nemo in Bleak House, with side glances at Balzac and Stendhal and other canonical texts, it attempts to show that no “real”; author lurks behind this figure. It elaborates the notion of the “narrator-as-author”; in a survey of Fielding’s narrative strategy in Joseph Andrews, with a close analysis of the narrative structure of the interpolated tale “Leonora”;. The figue of the author is neither “set”; (or implied) nor free : it is presupposed by the reader in the reading process as the only author-ity from which the text derives its significance.Pour Polyphème

Date de publication : 2008-06-18