Lorsque la littérature imite le rêve: Le rêve moderne et les récits d’avant-garde (Futurisme, Dadaïsme, Surréalisme)
Résumé
The avant-garde’s anti-prosaic compositions can hardly be defined as novels, because even though they have a novel’s appearance, they lack its formal readability. This essay wants to demonstrate that this result is partly justified by the fascination for another narrative form: the narrative of dreams, the narrative on dreams, the narrative as a dream. By studying a corpus of texts of the first thirty years of the twentieth century, mainly taken from avant-garde’s manifestoes, this article will show how the avant-garde’s poetics is influenced by the mechanisms and the oneiric process propelled by Freud and other specialists at the scale of the collective imagination of the time.