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 WILLGING, Jennifer J., « The Desire to Tell and the Anxiety of Telling : A Study of Narrative Production in Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux and Nathalie Sarraute », thèse de doctorat, Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University, 2000, 234 f. +++ Thèse de doctorat / mémoire de maîtrise WILLGING, Jennifer J., « The Desire to Tell and the Anxiety of Telling : A Study of Narrative Production in Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux and Nathalie Sarraute », thèse de doctorat, Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University, 2000, 234 f. +++ Thèse de doctorat / mémoire de maîtrise
  
-###« The desire to tell a story and the anxiety that sometimes accompanies such telling are forces that leave their trace in the narrative text. In this dissertation, I look for such traces in four twentieth-century narratives written in French : Marguerite Duras's //Madame Dodin// (//Des journées entières dans les arbres//, 1954) and //Monsieur X// (//La douleur//, 1985), Annie Ernaux's //La honte//(1991) and Nathalie Sarraute's //Entre la vie et la mort// (1968). My objective is to untangle the two forces in each text, describe how they have affected the construction of the narrative, and determine to what extent, if any, the act of narrating, the movement they propel, quells them.+###« The desire to tell a story and the anxiety that sometimes accompanies such telling are forces that leave their trace in the narrative text. In this dissertation, I look for such traces in four twentieth-century narratives written in French : Marguerite Duras's //Madame Dodin// (//Des journées entières dans les arbres//, 1954) and //Monsieur X// (//La douleur//, 1985), Annie Ernaux's //La honte// (1991) and Nathalie Sarraute's //Entre la vie et la mort// (1968). My objective is to untangle the two forces in each text, describe how they have affected the construction of the narrative, and determine to what extent, if any, the act of narrating, the movement they propel, quells them.
  
 Different kinds of desires and anxieties permeate each text. In //Madame Dodin//, the narrator wishes to be an advocate, through narrative, for her contentious but fascinating concierge, but resistance from her fellow tenants as well as from Mme Dodin incites in her an anxiety of authorship that inhibits her narration. In both //Monsieur X// and //La honte//, the narrator's principal desire is to reconstruct in narrative a traumatic experience, thereby giving order and sense to the memories that torment her. In //Entre la vie et la mort//, the narrator vacillates between two desires, one to produce literature that reveals a hidden reality and a more mundane wish to attain critical success. His most salient anxiety is that the work he produces will be "dead" and so will never procure for him either of the prizes he covets. Different kinds of desires and anxieties permeate each text. In //Madame Dodin//, the narrator wishes to be an advocate, through narrative, for her contentious but fascinating concierge, but resistance from her fellow tenants as well as from Mme Dodin incites in her an anxiety of authorship that inhibits her narration. In both //Monsieur X// and //La honte//, the narrator's principal desire is to reconstruct in narrative a traumatic experience, thereby giving order and sense to the memories that torment her. In //Entre la vie et la mort//, the narrator vacillates between two desires, one to produce literature that reveals a hidden reality and a more mundane wish to attain critical success. His most salient anxiety is that the work he produces will be "dead" and so will never procure for him either of the prizes he covets.

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