L'ecriture comme intensite: La vision metaphorique a travers l'oeuvre de Reinaldo Arenas.

摘要

Plunging into the work of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, this thesis examines the connection between Arenas' exuberant choice of metaphors related to light and vision -- such as color, dazzle, fire, the double -- and the potential meanings and implications of a narrative strategy based on such images.;By underlining the persistence, within language itself, of images related to light and vision -- such as reflection, clarity, lucidity and illumination --, as well as by examining the work of Reinaldo Arenas as well as of Jorge Luis Borges, this thesis offers a definition of writing as an experience characterized by intensity.;The first chapter analyzes how color as a visual phenomenon relates to the emotional realm and to the senses, as well as to their nuances ; following which, it exposes the metaphor of blindness within the experience of reading, as evoked by Borges and Paul de Man, leading to a reflection on writing.;The second chapter deals with the notion of dazzle as being, at once, a visual experience, and the very moment of awareness, thus reflecting on the concept of time, and on the understanding of writing, although perceived as linear, as grounded in a temporality similar to that of the poetic image.;The third chapter expands on the notion of a relationship between historical time, fictional time, narration, and light, emphasis being placed on the parallel between light intensity and narrative intensity, based on the "igniting" origins of language. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard's definition of imagination, it discusses the notion of threshold (where ignition leads to destruction) symbolized by the Phoenix, a mythical and literary figure of the transformation of images.;Finally, the two-fold conclusion (a double conclusion or two reflecting conclusions) brings together the metaphors related to light that have been discussed in the previous chapters within the perspective of writing as an experience characterized by intensity. Through the metaphor of the double that pervades and informs Arenas' as well as Borges' works, the relational and double nature of narration comes to life at the intersection between the character and his doubles (also an effect of vision as a creation of imagination or hallucination), between the author's expression and the reader's interpretation, between literature and time. The metaphors related to doubling recurring in Arenas' work offer a sense of intensification which summons up a vision of writing characterized by intensity.;Thus, the connection between poetic thinking and narration is established through a metaphor, as defined by Borges and expanded through Gaston Bachelard's notion of poetic imagery, and it is grounded in Reinaldo Arenas' constant play between formal expression and narrative content. Implicit is a double reflection, on literature and time.