L'exemplarité chez Max Aub : une négociation littéraire avec l'autorité
A rhetorical value among the Ancients, exemplarity was converted into a literary referent in the first collections of short stories. This transformation, at the dawn of modernity, remains sparsely commented upon. However, it is caught between cultural history and literary studies. The angle of analysis is therefore based on an approach combining a poetic perspective, looking for tensions within words, and a historical perspective, placing greater emphasis on the evolutionary process of a literary referent. This is where the adopted perspective stands out: literary thought delves deeper when encountering an attention dedicated to the history of literary recuperation. In this manner we can track the transformation of a rhetorical resource, the example, which would later give birth to various literary genres and transform itself into a legacy of the narrative tradition. This legacy would then be recovered by several authors, including Max Aub. This reflection will be punctuated by different stages. These correspond to the chapters of the master’s thesis: the first will summarize the origins and evolutions of the exemplum, while the second will focus on the narrative turn of exemplarity. Following the idea that Cervantes embodies, through his writings, a decisive mutation of literary exemplarity, I will comment further on the nature of this mutation. The third chapter will be devoted to Max Aub and his relationship to models, using the prism of exemplarity. This work is essentially scholarly. The perspective I work with allows me to combine literary history and reflections on certain intertextual issues. Aub's relationship with Cervantes and the designated tradition allows us to narrate more fully the derivation of the examples. Such a derivation is interesting, insofar as it signals the renewed concern of a thought recycling the path of its predecessors. Since Aub's case is not isolated, we can generalize some of our analyses, and finally dive into a question parallel to the relationships maintained by the texts: how to navigate through the apparent heaviness of the canonical texts? Thus, the repercussions of the canon on the authors who intend to dialogue with it and enter it are at the heart of this research.
influence paradigme violence canon tradition exemplarity paradigm rhetoric narrative