« il faudrait cesser d'ecrire des romans, recuperation feuilletonesque du mouvement social » : jean-patrick manchette et la politique = "We Should Stop Writing Novels, Serial Recovery of the Social Movement": Jean-Patrick Headline and Politics / Sophie J Dolto.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Dolto, Sophie J., author.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Romance Languages, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature.

Art history.

Political science.

Romance Languages--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Romance Languages.

Local Subjects:

French literature.

Art history.

Political science.

Romance Languages--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Romance Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Distribution:

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 84-12A.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2022.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

This thesis examines the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995), the most significant French crime fiction writer of the 1970s. It explores the political dynamics at play in the writings of this author, who was avowedly interested in the history of artistic avant-gardes and revolutionary movements. It pays particular attention to the presence of ultra-left ideas, above all those of the Situationist International (1957-1972). This research aims on the one hand to rectify Manchette scholarship regarding the specific nature of this author's political influences and on the other to offer a case-study of the contradictory effects that the Situationist International (SI) had on writers of their time. Manchette, conscious of a problem of consistency between his interest in the SI and his desire to have a career as writer, called himself "pro-situ" (a derogatory term coined by the Situationists) and described his novels as "feuilleton-like co-optations of the social movement", picking up on Jaime Semprun's definition of "recuperation".Chapter One considers Manchette's nonfiction texts, in particular the regular columns he wrote on American noir, a genre emerging from the 1920-1940 "counter-revolution". Manchette compares Dashiell Hammett's novels to Trojan horses infiltrating American mass culture. Manchette's political theory leads him to reflect on the possibility of writing creatively in the revolutionary period of the 1970s. Chapters Two and Three discuss the fact that Manchette did write, despite the unresolved political contradictions, and experimented with strategies which bear the traces of his political influences.Chapter Two studies Manchette's stylistic choices, especially his use of repetition and its relation to Situationist detournement. Chapter Three examines the way in which Manchette integrates geopolitical debates into his novels, in particular his critique of terrorism and how it relates to the Debordian "Spectacle." It also analyzes how Manchette's novels narratively underline individual alienation and dialectically point to collective revolution. An appendix explores the "Holocaust denial" circles within the 1980s ultra-left and clarifies Manchette's position in that debate.

Cette these analyse l'oeuvre de Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995), auteur majeur de romans noirs francais, actif dans les annees 1970. Elle explore les dynamiques politiques a l'oeuvre dans les ecrits de cet auteur passionne par l'histoire des avant-gardes artistiques et des mouvements revolutionnaires. Elle se penche tout particulierement sur la presence des theses de l'ultra-gauche et des idees de l'Internationale Situationniste (1957-1972) chez Manchette. Cette recherche entend d'une part rectifier certaines interpretations de la critique quant aux influences politiques de Manchette et d'autre part offrir une etude de cas, analysant ainsi les effets contradictoires que l'Internationale Situationniste a pu avoir sur les ecrivains de son temps. Manchette, conscient qu'il existait un probleme de coherence entre son interet pour l'IS et son desir de faire carriere comme ecrivain, se disait « pro-situ » (terme pejoratif invente par les situationnistes) et decrivait ses romans comme des « recuperations feuilletonesques du mouvement social », reprenant la definition de Jaime Semprun.Le premier chapitre se penche sur les textes non-fictionnels de Manchette, en particulier sur ses chroniques sur le roman noir americain, un genre issu selon Manchette de la « contre-revolution » de 1920-1940. Manchette compare les romans de Dashiell Hammett a des chevaux de Troie infiltrant la culture de masse americaine. La theorie politique de Manchette l'amene a reflechir a la possibilite d'ecrire de maniere creative dans la periode revolutionnaire des annees 1970. Le deuxieme chapitre etudie les choix stylistiques de Manchette, en particulier son usage de la repetition, et precise son lien avec le detournement situationniste. Le troisieme chapitre examine la maniere dont des debats politiques, y compris geopolitiques, apparaissent dans les romans de Manchette. Il s'interesse en particulier a la critique manchettienne du terrorisme et aux liens que celle-ci-entretient avec les textes de Guy Debord. Ce chapitre analyse egalement la maniere dont les romans de Manchette mettent en scene l'alienation des personnages et pointent vers un espace negatif, lui-meme toujours soustrait aux yeux du lecteur. Une annexe etablit une chronologie des debats en ce qui concerne le virage de certains membres de l'ultra-gauche vers le negationnisme et precise la position de Manchette dans ce debat.

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: A.

Advisors: Prince, Gerald J.; Committee members: Goulet, Andrea; Hollister, Lucas; Zacarias, Gabriel.

Department: Romance Languages.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2023.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798379751388

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