Le pathétique dans les premiers romans de William Faulkner : un exemple de rapport tragique à la loi ?

摘要

When William Faulkner wrote about «pity and fear» in connection with his own writing, he was relying on Aristotle 's definition of the tragic «effect» as opposed to mere «pathos» or «horror». However, Faulkner's early fiction does not agree with the phenomenology of action which is indissociable from the tragic genre in Aristotle's definition. Doomed characters now perform repetitive gestures rather than irreparable deeds ; scenes of recognition or confrontation are now merely reminiscent of anagnorisis or agôn, as if the protagonists 'relation to time had been altered when the tragic hypotexts were translated into Faulkner 's modernist texts.