| dc.description.abstract | In the history of French literature, André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909-1991) is considered as an author whose works remain the spirit of surrealism after this movement declined. There is a wide variety in his writings; his works include poetry, short novel, novel, drama critique and literature critique. About Mandiargues’s writing style, in addition to surrealism, which plays a significant role, subject matters that he personally prefers including exotic elements and art works also become the characteristics of his works. Such a style that mixes the fantastic, erotic and dreamlike factors even forms a special genre: genre Mandiargues. Among all kinds of his writings, short fiction is the most outstanding and representative one. The author’’s imagination obtained the best development in this kind of short written work. Furthermore, the short story seems to be much closer to the main theme of the author’s writings: dream.
Based on the above reasons and considering the homogeneity between the works, we choose Feu de braise, an anthology published in 1959 which includes seven short stories as the main subject of the research. In this piece of work, stories are frequently based on events in reality but enter the world of dreams, and continuously drift between. The dreamlike atmosphere covers the whole work. Therefore, the relation between dream and reality becomes the primary topic in the research.
We introduce the rise of the surrealism and it’s concepts as a main factor in the first chapter and try to figure out the origin of the author’s writing style and the characteristics that inherit from surrealism. Moreover, besides comparing the same points between surrealism and the authors’s writing style, we also want to find the different points that represent Mandiargues’s personal manner.
The second chapter focuses on the vague world in the text. We associate Freud’s theories in dream world with this feature to investigate the dreamlike scenery, the mental states of the characters and their experiences in the stories. The characters usually wander between the real word and their dreams, going through different kinds of extreme experiences about death and erotism.
In the third chapter, we discuss the changeable and unstable relation between the text and the readers. In this piece of work, this relation and the position of the reader change continuously due to the connection between the text and dedication, the scenes of the sacrifice and the different ways of narration. The reader’s position is indefinite. He or she can be an onlooker or becomes a part of narration: a narrator or a character. | en_US |