Discours situationniste dans l'oeuvre de Réjean Ducharme
This thesis is devoted to the analysis of the situationnist discourse in the work of Quebec author Réjean Ducharme. We analyse more closely three novels: Le nez qui voque (1967) L’hiver de force (1973) and Dévadé (1990). Assuming that Ducharme could have had contact with the ideas of a French counter-cultural group named Internationale situationniste (1957-1972), we try to pick up similitudes between them and analyse the ways those have an effect on Ducharme’s work. Our comparative micro-textual analysis is divided in three parts. First we address their vision of the role art should have in society as well as their resistance to its institutionalization. We then address the ducharmian and situationnist conceptions of the city and its organization, both being very similar. Finally we analyse the economic and political discourses in our corpuses insisting on the way Ducharme’s characters as well as the members of the Internationale situationniste resist to the capitalist and hierarchic organization of society and favour an ideal based on game, friendship and love. We show that the situationnist discourse is omnipresent in Ducharme’s work. We think it proves that even though some critics claim the opposite, Réjean Ducharme is a political author.
Réjean Ducharme Internationale situationniste Literary discourse analysis Counter-culture