La comparaison dans Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis

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Revue n° 7 – Printemps 2012
MariaCristina PEDRAZZINI
La comparaison dans Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Dans cet article nous proposons une analyse de la comparaison d’égalité dans Voyage au bout de la nuit de Céline,
d’abord sous ses formes les plus courantes de la comparaison lexicale et grammaticale, et ensuite sous celle de la comparaison animale.
Nous avons établi notre corpus à l’aide de la banque textuelle Frantext en isolant les co-occurrences d’un être humain comme comparé et d’un comparant humain et/ou animal.
Les résultats obtenus montrent l’intérêt de l’étude de la comparaison et de son sens anthropologique dans l’œuvre
de Céline.
“Comparison in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night”.
Céline’s scorn for Aragon is well-known, as is Aragon’s unbroken admi- ration for Voyage au bout de la nuit. From
a purely Célinian angle, one scar- cely needs to go beyond the image of Aragon as an arrogant and sententious
man, whose admiration for a great writer was not enough to stop him wan- ting to impose his own political views.
However, the conflict between these two figures deserves greater scrutiny, for the light it sheds on the literary climate
in interwar France : both the hardening of ideologies in the lead- up to the Second World War (especially after
Hitler’s rise to power), and the apparently more fluid situation of the 1920s. The essay is built on the analysis of
two of Aragon’s works that, to our knowledge, have not so far been studied in relation to Céline : Pour un réalisme
socialiste (Paris : Denoël et Steele, 1935) ; and Anicet, ou le panorama (Paris : Gallimard, 1921), which, somewhat
prophetically, allows a glimpse of what, in the realm of imagination, shows Aragon close to Céline, and what marks
a distance bet- ween them. We will argue that in the context of the post-war cultural crisis in France, Aragon and
Céline, through their commitment to the renewal of literary language, have complementary, rather than opposed
roles.
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