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“Jules Romains et le Grand Je: jeux de masques entre réalité et fiction” [“Jules Romains and the ‘Grand Je’: Between Reality and Fiction”], Plasticité [Plasticity], No. 1, 2015 The novel Men of Good Will is full of the author’s doubles; these real or imaginary beings play an ontological double game. Actually we can say that everything is double in Jules Romains’ work: characters, actions (one can become an impostor for different reasons, for instance to get lost in the crowd, or, on the contrary, to satisfy one’s ambition to distinguish oneself from the crowd), texts (often the duplicate precedes the original: Romains is a master in the art of reversed self-parody). Thus we can say that Jules Romains weakens both reality and fiction. Playing with his own power he ends up undermining the credibility of his creation, that seems to obey insubstantial laws. Immanence replaces transcendence, and the text becomes a plastic surface, which is condemned to the lot of Penelope’s tapestry: the reader weaves and unravels it in the same time, without any hope that the cycle of these interpretative rebirths will ever come to an end.
Les Hommes de bonne volonté sont peuplés de nombreux jumeaux de l’auteur, qui, mi-réels, mi-fictifs, jouent un double-jeu ontologique. Car tout est double chez Romains : les personnages, les actions (on peut être imposteur par désir de disparaître dans la foule autant que par ambition de se distinguer), les textes (et souvent la copie précède l’original : Romains est un maître de l’auto-parodie par anticipation). De la sorte, Romains affaiblit aussi bien la fiction que la réalité. À force de jouer avec son propre pouvoir, il décrédibilise sa création, qui semble n’obéir qu’à des lois sans épaisseur – de telle manière que l’abyme se substitue à la transcendance, et que le texte devient une pure surface plastique condamnée à partager le sort du tapis de Pénélope : le lecteur le tisse et le détisse dans un même mouvement, sans espoir que le cycle de ces palingénésies interprétatives s’achève jamais.
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature, Littérature du XXe siècle, Jeu, XXth-century French literature, Double, Autoréflexivité, Games, Jules Romains, Plays
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature, Littérature du XXe siècle, Jeu, XXth-century French literature, Double, Autoréflexivité, Games, Jules Romains, Plays
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