| dc.description.abstract | By means of intertextuality, the present work intends to explore the semantic field
of Le Miroir qui revient [The Mirror Which Returns], the first autobiographic volume
of the French new novelist, Alain Robbe-Grillet. In fact, Le Miroir qui revient is the
first part of his autobiographic trilogy, Romanesques, including two other volumes :
Angélique ou l’enchantement and Les Derniers jours de Corinthe.
Since intertextuality serves as the essential methodology on textual analysis, the
first part of the work tries to reexamine the concept of intertextuality which remains
extremely ambiguous as of its birth. Of the same part, the choice of intertextuality
as methodology in order to analyse the texe Le Miroir qui revient will also be justified,
which thus constitutes the theoretical prolegomena. The following chapters go directly
into the intertextual analysis at two levels : inter-textual and intertextual.
With regard to the inter-textual analysis, the work focuses on the hybrid form of
Le Miroir qui revient, which is actually composed of three literary genres traditionally
distinguished from one another, i.e. autobiography, fiction and meta-discourse. In the
first chapter, two ‘‘mirrors which return’’ will be elaborated on the basis of an active
interaction among the three genres juxtaposed in the same text. As to the intertextual
analysis, the work refers to the concept of ‘‘romanesque’’ [roman-like] of Roland
Barthes in the hope of constructing a possible dialogue between his narrative of being,
Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes, and that of Alain Robbe-Grillet. In the second
chapter, the roman-like narrative of being is argued as the third ‘‘mirror which
returns’’, as well as a potential access to the liberation of reading in the consumer
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