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Writing and sickness are, at the end of 19th century, closely blended. Writers have become aware of being the very embodiment of the "fin-de siècle " exhaustion and there are scars of sickness among their own writing whereas an ambiguous rivalry match them against the scientist named physician. A new complaint called "Neurasthenia" gives its name to this "mal du siecle" and Octave Mirbeau has been one of its most famous cases. In a book entitled Les vingt et un jours d'un neurasthenique, he uses writing as a way to pour out and throw a light upon the roots of his neurosis, the germ of wich being found in his boyhood. But neurasthenia and introspection have killed the novel and this points a turn in Mirbeau 's writings who, henceforth, will never write novels any more. Being as well the fashion as a social disease, neurasthenia spreads among the decadent writers who were its dedicated prey : they ail evince the common anxiety of the writers, and especially of the poet, against the most invading science which leaves no room for them. Trough the poet's death, the end of century is shown as a decay of civilization, in so far as language is threatened.
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Ce mémoire présente une analyse du discours médiatique d'Octave Mirbeau à l'époque des attentats anarchistes, en se penchant sur des chroniques publiées entre 1892 et 1894. L'engagement idéologique de Mirbeau, nettement perceptible dans ces articles, est fondé discursivement sur la posture d'un journalisme pamphlétaire. Après avoir relevé et analysé les traits de cette posture, l'étude explore les contraintes de l'actualité sur l'écriture de Mirbeau. Dans son traitement de l'actualité et ses réactions à l'interdiscours médiatique, Mirbeau convoque une série d'éléments de fictionnalisation, qui sont passés en revue et étudiés. Enfin, ce mémoire, s'inscrivant dans une perspective culturelle et littéraire de l'étude des journaux, se penche sur les contours flous de l'imaginaire social de l'anarchisme, tel que le construit Mirbeau.
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Through the concept of the “chronotope” coined by Mikhail Bakhtin to analyze European literature, this article theorizes that the particular time-space continuum depicted in the road movies of the late 1960s was already evident in one of the first texts to describe a trip by automobile, namely La 628-E8 by Octave Mirbeau in 1907.
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Mirbeau's Sébastien Roch was published in 1890 for clearly ideological purposes. The novel, which deals with the rape of an adolescent by a Jesuit priest in the college he attends, was written from an anarchist point of view. For the author, rape includes, and intensifies, the pernicious effects for every individual of the integration and social regulation mechanisms assured by the family, school, religious community and army. Père de Kern's sexual abuse is the ultimate injury in a destructive process that ends when the hero's education transforms his life into an appalling wasteland. But the author's originality consists in combining this satirical realism with depth psychology, allowing us to explore the consciousness of the victim from within. Thus, the interest of the novel lies, for the most part, in this dual approach to the issue of rape: the restitution of Sébastien's intimate experience transcends the ideological framework of a satire on social institutions, leading to an attempt to provide a quasi-phenomenological account of the perceptions and emotions that permeate the character's psyche, thereby revealing the confused feelings that bind him to his abuser.
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