Déconstruire l’anthropocentrisme : écopoétique et critique des sociétés humaines dans les romans d’André-Marcel Adamek

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Supervisors

Piret, Pierre

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en langues et lettres françaises et romanes, orientation générale, à finalité didactique

Abstract

enThis thesis analyzes the deconstruction of anthropocentrism in four novels by André-Marcel Adamek: Oxygène ou les chemins de Mortmandie (1970), Le Fusil à pétales (1974), L’Oiseau des morts (1995), and La fête interdite (1997). It shows how the author, through an “ecopoetics of disruption,” erases the boundaries between categories, particularly between human and animal, as well as between the real and the unreal, through a magico-realist aesthetic, hybrid characters, and the analysis of similarities between species. The narratives offer a critique of societies by challenging the foundations of institutions such as justice. The novels achieve a universal scope thanks to the themes they address and the indeterminacy of their spatio-temporal frameworks. Marginality is valorized through the opposition between dominant groups and marginalized individuals. The novels invite readers to rethink modes of reasoning by moving beyond purely rational logic, thereby expanding imagination and perception of the world. They outline a utopia of life that encourages a reexamination of society and consideration of its transformations based on a renewed relationship with the living, founded on empathy and fraternity. This utopia positions humans not as the center of life, but as actors among a multitude of beings essential to the Earth, surpassing the anthropocentric perspective.