Le rêve comme stratégie du refus chez Lewis Carroll

Deborah Bridle-Surprenant (1)

1 CTEL - Centre transdisciplinaire d’épistémologie de la littérature et des arts vivants

This article explores the works of Lewis Carroll through the lens of Clément Rosset’s concept of the real and the illusion. Rosset’s essay Le Réel et son Double guided my analysis of Carroll’s novels and enabled me to establish a link between the philosopher’s theory of denial of the real by the deluded subject and the writer’s creation of a nonsensical dream world. Following the structure of the three chapters of Rosset’s essay, I seek to ascertain how, by evading the oppression of the real and its unavoidable implications – namely age, loneliness and death – Carroll refuses to conform and to subject himself to inevitability, and at the same time seems to be fully aware of his attempt, thus questioning the validity of the process of refusal.

Mots clés: dream

Mots clés: Rosset; nonsense; rêve; Carroll; illusion

Domaines: Littératures

Deborah Bridle-Surprenant. Le rêve comme stratégie du refus chez Lewis Carroll. Cycnos, 2012, LE REFUS esthétique, littérature, société, musique, 28 (1), pp.95-105. ⟨hal-01236057⟩