
Cet article entend explorer les processus de création à l'oeuvre dans la genèse du roman de Juan José Saer, El limonero real (1974). À partir de la construction de la figure du fils décédé, il s'agit de remonter aux origines de l'écriture du roman, en 1963 : en effet, dans les Papeles de trabajo ainsi que dans les manuscrits, on peut voir comment ce travail de longue haleine, qui a duré dix ans, puise ses origines dans la poésie. L'ambition du roman en vers est longtemps envisagée, mais Saer lui préfère finalement la prose poétique. Cependant, tout le travail visible dans la genèse sous la forme d'un insu génétique pérène du texte ; la perte du fils, maniée, remaniée, ainsi que la disposition des épisodes dans le version définitive du roman sont autant de marques du travail d'expérimentation littéraire de la part de l'écrivain. C'est pourquoi El limonero real peut être pensé comme un tournant de l'écriture saérienne : le passage d'une période d'écriture de jeunesse, à une écriture plus mature.
From the doctorant’s research conference theme “Returns: from elsewhere and the past”, our article explores the creation processes in Juan José Saer’s novel El limonero real (1974). The starting point of this paper is the dead son’s figure; furthermore, I am looking toward the novel’s writting origins, in 1963: as a matter of fact, in Juan José Saer’s Papeles de trabajo as well as in the Manuscripts from Princeton Library collection, we can observe how this long-term project – that lasted for ten years- emerges first from poetry. In fact, the writer’s ambition was to compose a novel in verses, but he will finally chose a poetic prose. However, the various stages of the poetic research remain in the final novel: the son’s loss, as well as the order of the narrative sequences are revised, showing marks of Saer’s literary exploration. That is why El limonero real can be thought as a turn in saerian writing : the evolution from his youth way of writing to a more mature one.
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences
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