L’Abbaye de Thélème : une enclave soustraite au réel ou le paroxysme d’une société élitiste
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2021
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
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Cet article se donne pour ambition de questionner l’Abbaye de Thélème imaginée par François Rabelais afin d’en saisir le programme utopique initial tout en en observant les contours et les limites. Il s’agira alors de situer cette œuvre à un carrefour où se croisent les valeurs humanistes, les apports de More, les crises spirituelles mais aussi et surtout un besoin nécessaire de renouveau et d’inédit qui résulte d’une critique sociale et politique. C’est à partir de ce constat liminaire que nous tenterons ensuite d’approcher la structure, le projet et les lois qui règlementent et organisent cette société utopique avant d’en saisir les limites. Nous pourrons alors en apprécier la construction, tant physique que théorique, en dressant un parallèle révélateur avec l’architecture du couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette imaginé par Le Corbusier. Nous verrons enfin comment le jeu de la langue chez Rabelais outrepasse le projet idéologique au profit d’une écriture novatrice, complexe et protéiforme. Il faudra dès lors en entendre les paradoxes qui permettent de comprendre et saisir l’importance littéraire qui au final se détache progressivement de l’utopie initiale.
This article aims to analyze the Abbey of Thélème imagined by François Rabelais to get a clear idea about the initial utopian programme, by means of ob-serving its shapes and limits. It will situate this work at an intersection between humanitarian values, contribution from More, spiritual crisis, and above all a pressing demand for renewal and novelty, resulting from societal and political criticism. It is from this opening statement that we will try to approach the structure, the project and the laws regulating and organizing this particular utopian society, before deter-mining its limits. Attention will be paid to its construction, concrete and theoretical, in a parallel with the architecture of the convent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette designed by Le Corbusier. Thus, we will demonstrate how Rabelais’ linguistic games overstep the ideological project for the benefit of a new type of writing, complex and multifaceted. We will have to understand a lot of paradoxes, which allow us to determine the importance of the literature beyond the initial utopian project.
This article aims to analyze the Abbey of Thélème imagined by François Rabelais to get a clear idea about the initial utopian programme, by means of ob-serving its shapes and limits. It will situate this work at an intersection between humanitarian values, contribution from More, spiritual crisis, and above all a pressing demand for renewal and novelty, resulting from societal and political criticism. It is from this opening statement that we will try to approach the structure, the project and the laws regulating and organizing this particular utopian society, before deter-mining its limits. Attention will be paid to its construction, concrete and theoretical, in a parallel with the architecture of the convent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette designed by Le Corbusier. Thus, we will demonstrate how Rabelais’ linguistic games overstep the ideological project for the benefit of a new type of writing, complex and multifaceted. We will have to understand a lot of paradoxes, which allow us to determine the importance of the literature beyond the initial utopian project.
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François Rabelais, utopie, humanisme, société, espaces, limites, utopia, humanism, society, spaces, limits
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2021, nº 11, s. 23-37