Writing to Convince: Dos Passos’s U.S.A. and Aragon’s Les Communistes
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2011.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : What strikes readers of Dos Passos’s trilogy U.S.A. and Aragon’s Les Communistes is their power of persuasion as well as the lack or even the refusal of an explicit militant discourse. How can a committed discourse about the real world be structured? How can readers be convinced about views the authors hold to be more valuable than others in novels that do not follow the tendenz model? The answer given by both authors is the same: It is necessary to write literature, not propaganda. Abandoning the usual militant tricks is thus a pragmatic necessity turned into a convincing strategy. What remains is to uncover its techniques and its constituent parts.
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What strikes readers of Dos Passos’s trilogy U.S.A. and Aragon’s Les Communistes is their power of persuasion as well as the lack or even the refusal of an explicit militant discourse. How can a committed discourse about the real world be structured? How can readers be convinced about views the authors hold to be more valuable than others in novels that do not follow the tendenz model? The answer given by both authors is the same: It is necessary to write literature, not propaganda. Abandoning the usual militant tricks is thus a pragmatic necessity turned into a convincing strategy. What remains is to uncover its techniques and its constituent parts.
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