La thèse est souvent considérée comme le genre de tous les académismes. Pourtant, depuis le milieu du XIXᵉ siècle, plusieurs grands écrivains français ont entrepris un doctorat, non sans faire preuve d'une certaine originalité. Mallarmé a commencé une thèse de linguistique afin de se remettre d'une crise existentielle, la thèse de Péguy n'est rien d'autre qu'une longue insulte contre la Sorbonne, celle de Paulhan se perd dans d'innombrables brouillons sur plus de trente-cinq ans, Céline a soumis au jury un autoportrait à peine dissimulé derrière l'éloge d'un médecin hongrois, et Barthes a affirmé que la thèse devait être un "corps érotique". Antithèses est une enquête historique où les mondes littéraires et universitaires se rencontrent et se défient. C'est aussi un anti-manuel de thèse dans lequel les écrivains questionnent les normes et formes académiques tout en distillant leurs conseils d'écriture. The thesis is often considered the genre of all academicisms. However, since the middle of the 19th century, several great French writers have undertaken a doctorate, not without demonstrating a certain originality. Mallarmé began a linguistics thesis in order to recover from an existential crisis, Péguy's thesis is nothing other than a long insult against the Sorbonne, Paulhan's is lost in countless drafts over more than Thirty-five years old, Céline submitted to the jury a self-portrait barely concealed behind the praise of a Hungarian doctor, and Barthes asserted that the thesis must be an "erotic body". Antitheses is a historical investigation where the literary and academic worlds meet and challenge each other. It is also an anti-thesis manual in which writers question academic norms and forms while distilling their writing advice.
...MoreReview Lucile Dumont (2021) Review of "Antithèses: Mallarmé, Péguy, Paulhan, Céline, Barthes". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines (pp. 267-271).
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