%0 Journal Article
%T Inlassablement raconter l¡¯autre et le pass¨¦. Les formes du biographique dans l¡¯ uvre de Peter Ackroyd
%A Manon Auger
%J Temps Z¨¦ro : Revue d'¨¦tude des ¨¦critures Contemporaines
%D 2010
%I Codicille ?diteur
%X Dossier/Issue: 4 - Mises en oeuvre de la relation biographique. Fronti¨¨res et m¨¦diations - The work of Peter Ackroyd is underpinned by a relationship to the biographical process that is at once straightforward and complex. On the one hand, his work demonstrates a desire to exalt the mythical cultural past of England, a desire that enables him to inscribe himself and his work into a relationship of filiation in which his ¡°palimpsestic¡± heritage is fully assumed and asserted. On the other, a will to call upon all types of biographical discourse in order to effect a continuous renewal, not so much of the discourse itself, but of the form and manner of communicating and of relating the work¡¯s relationship to the biographical process is developed. In examining two of Ackroyd¡¯s novels (The Great Fire of London et Hawksmoor), we will see how, through the use of a variety of enunciative forms, he renews his vision of the biographical process according to the idea that the present is but a repetition of the past in a new form, and that the biographical process, even when coloured by a ludic hue, inevitably falters in the face of the impossibility of truly grasping and expressing the other. - L¡¯ uvre de Peter Ackroyd est travers¨¦e par une relation au biographique ¨¤ la fois simple et complexe. D¡¯une part, s¡¯y trouve un d¨¦sir d¡¯exalter le pass¨¦ culturel mythique de l¡¯Angleterre qui lui permet de s¡¯inscrire dans une filiation o¨´ l¡¯h¨¦ritage   palimpsestueux   est pleinement assum¨¦ et revendiqu¨¦. D¡¯autre part, se dessine ¨¤ travers cette  uvre une volont¨¦ d¡¯investir tous les types de discours biographiques afin de renouveler sans cesse non pas tant le dire biographique lui-m¨ºme que la forme et la mani¨¨re de dire et de raconter son rapport fondamental au biographique. En s¡¯appuyant sur l¡¯examen de deux romans d¡¯Ackroyd (The Great Fire of London et Hawksmoor), il s¡¯agit de voir comment, ¨¤ travers des formes ¨¦nonciatives diverses, Peter Ackroyd reconduit sa vision du biographique, ¨¤ savoir que le pr¨¦sent n¡¯est toujours qu¡¯un surgissement et une r¨¦p¨¦tition du pass¨¦ mais sous une nouvelle forme et que la relation (au) biographique, m¨ºme v¨¦cue sous un mode ludique, achoppe immanquablement sur une impossibilit¨¦ de v¨¦ritablement saisir et dire l¡¯autre.
%K fiction
%K h¨¦ritage
%K pass¨¦
%K tradition
%K Peter Ackroyd
%K past
%K enunciation
%K biography
%K ¨¦nonciation
%K biographie
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