Marie Bonnot

ALUMNA ASSOZIIERTE DOKTORANDIN

 

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

17, rue de la Sorbonne

75231 Paris Cedex 05

 

E-Mail  marie.bonnot(at)univ-paris3.fr

                 marie.bonnot(at)gmail.com

 

 

Marie Bonnot is working at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle  – Paris 3 in Paris, France. Under the super­vision of Professor Alain Schaffner she is writing her dissertation on the history of the literary genre of the dream narrative in the French 20th century. She is also a member of the network »Rêve« in Paris (research group Thalim; Sorbonne nouvelle/CNRS/ENS).  

 

From September 2015 to April 2018 Marie Bonnot was an associated PhD candidate of the Graduate School »Europäische Traum­kulturen«.

  • French literature (20th century)
  • Narratives of dreams
  • Literature and science (psychoanalysis, neuroscience)
  • Fantastic literature
  • Theory of interpretation

     

    Le récit de rêve des surréalistes à nos jours: histoire des idées et évolution des formes

    (english translation): Dream telling from surrealism to nowadays: epistemology and esthetics

     

    This dissertation aims at presenting a history of the literary genre of the dream narrative in the French 20th century.

     

    The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to epistemology. It shows how, from the 1920’s on, thinking about dreams influences thinking about literature, but also vice-versa. It starts by analysing the attitudes of the writers as dream specialists, especially as a parallel to scientific discourses. Furthermore it examines how literary inspiration and dreaming can be easily confounded but have to be clearly distinguished in the 20th century. Finally, I suggest that the way of reading a dream report in the 20th century has to be compared to the new interpretations of the dream. I propose to consider that 20th century literature is taking part in a »dream paradigm« in which revolves around the idea of association. The notion of »Traumarbeit«, elaborated by Freud, constrains writers to define what a literary work on dream would mean: does it consist of a special skill for dreaming and transcribing this experience, or does it happen during the actual moment of writing?

     

    The second part of the dissertation tackles the esthetics of dream narratives. It highlights the variety of these texts, from surrealistic recollections of dreams by André Breton, Paul Eluard or Robert Desnos, to contemporary fictional short stories by Marcel Béalu or Frédérick Tristan. It also focuses on two other particular styles of narrating dreams: the formalistic approach of Raymond Queneau and Georges Perec in the 1960’s and the 1970’s and the reflection on art in dreams in Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Butor’s works.

     

    In conclusion, I underline the social and artistic function of the dream, which is to me, a way to understand this enigmatic state of consciousness.

     

     

     

     

    Book

    together with Emilie Frémond (ed.): Rêve et fantastique. Paris: Otrante - Éditions Kimé. 2015 (= Art et littérature fantastiques, n° 37). (http://www.editionskime.fr/n-37-reve-fantastique/)

     

    Articles
    • La Boutique obscure : une tentative d’épuisement du récit de rêve ? In: Reggiani, Christelle (ed.): Georges Perec : nouvelles approches, actes du colloque de Cerisy. In: La Licorne, PUR n° 123 (2016). [in press]
    • Fleuve, arbre, épis et tiroirs : pratiques du chapitre chez Georges Perec. In: Colin, Claire, Thomas Conrad & Aude Leblond (eds.): Pratiques et poétiques du chapitre, XIXe et XXe siècles. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2016. [in press]
    • Rêver avec Freud, écrire contre lui. In Bonnot, Marie, Aude Leblond & Alain Schaffner (eds.): Les contours du rêve, actes du colloque de la Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3. Paris:Hermann 2016. [in press]  
    • Pour un fantastique les yeux fermés. In: Bonnot, Marie u. Émilie Frémond (Hrsg.): Rêve et fantastique. Otrante Paris: Otrante - Éditions Kimé. 2015 (= Art et littérature fantastiques, n°37). P. 7–22.
    • Franz Hellens: le fantastique sous les yeux du rêve. In: Bonnot, Marie u. Émilie Frémond (Hrsg.): Rêve et fantastique. Otrante Paris: Otrante - Éditions Kimé. 2015 (= Art et littérature fantastiques, n° 37). P. 89–103.
    • Reprendre, citer et ne pas dire: enquête sur l'intertextualité proustienne dans le chapitre XCIX de La Vie mode d’emploi. In: Le Cabinet d’amateur. Revue d’études perecquiennes. http://associationgeorgesperec.fr/IMG/pdf/M-Bonnot.pdf
    • Écriture du rêve et jeux de mots dans La Boutique obscure de Georges Perec. In: Reggiani, Christelle u. Véronique Montémont (Hrsg.): Perec, artisan de la langue. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, coll. 2012 (=Texte et Langue). P. 121–130.

     

    September/October 2015

    Georges Perec, ›l’insomniaque du jour‹: le détournement des rêves dans La Boutique obscure. Colloqium »Les usages du rêve: lieux, savoirs, fictions«, organised by Jacqueline Carroy and Andreas Mayer, EHESS

     

    June 2015

    (with Alain Schaffner and Aude Leblond): »Les contours du rêve«. International and interdisciplinary colloquium:Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3. (see also: http://www.thalim.cnrs.fr/colloques-et-journees-d-etude/article/les-contours-du-reve?id_evenement=2419#evenement_2419)

     

    May 2015

    Comment parler des rêves qu’on n’a pas faits? Littérature et psychanalyse, talk in the graduate seminar »Littérature et sciences« directed by Alain Schaffner, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3.

     

    2013–2016

    University Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3:

    • postgraduate courses (first year): »History of French literature« (18th, 19th and 20th centuries), »oral argumentation«
    • graduate courses (preparation to »agrégation de Lettres modernes«): oral explication of text

     

    2012–2012

    Lycée Gustave Eiffel, Gagny. (Professor of French in high school)