Du Théâtre Au Récit de Soi Dans Le Roman-Mémoires Du Xviiie Siècle

Tout semble opposer le th??tre au r?cit de soi. Le premier se rattache aux arts du spectacle, tandis que le second rel?ve de l'intime. Genre litt?raire embl?matique du XVIIIe si?cle, le roman-m?moires invite ? d?passer cette opposition. S'il place l'exp?rience v?cue au coeur de son ?criture, il s'approprie ?galement le langage de la sc?ne comique ou tragique au profit d'une fiction de l'int?riorit?. Ce livre montre ce que le roman-m?moires doit au th??tre, en ?tudiant comment son ?criture s'?labore ? partir de diff?rents emprunts et proc?d?s caract?ristiques de la sc?ne. En s'inventant au sein d'une culture domin?e par le go?t du spectacle, ce genre l?gue ainsi ? la litt?rature ? venir les ?l?ments constitutifs d'un langage de l'intime.

Theatre and fictional memoir are supposedly opposites: the former has to do with the performing arts, while the latter focuses on the intimate side of life. A literary genre emblematic of the eighteenth century, fictional memoir invites readers to move beyond this assumption. Although lived experience is at the heart of the memoir, such fiction also appropriates the language of comedy or tragedy for the benefit of a novel of interiority. This book highlights fictional memoir's debt to the theatre, while examining how its writing developed based on various borrowings and processes characteristic of the stage. By self-inventing within a culture dominated by enthusiasm for stage performance, this genre thereby endowed future literature with the constitutive elements of a language of the intimate.