TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - "He could not fucking die": Le tie-game dans Sabbath's Theater de Philip Roth
JO  - Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines
A1  - Amfreville, M.
SP  - 21
EP  - 32
VL  - 166
IS  - 1
N2  - Organized as a diptych to reproduce the inner organization of the novel, the present article aims to show that Sabbath's Theater stages a fight between Eros and Thanatos that apparently results in an unexpected tie-game of a nature to challenge many a theoretical aesthetic and psychoanalytical assumption. The energies of the Love Instinct are pit up against the forces of the Death Drive in the arena of a constant confrontation of harrowing obscenity and transgression juxtaposed with distressing representations of the haunting of death and forebodings of suicide. Highly destabilizing, the text thus locks its reader in a theater of rejection and sympathy that does not leave him.her unscathed, and ultimately produces an experiment in form that helps understand why Roth considered it his best achievement. © 2021 Association Francaise d'Etudes Americaines. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: fr</p>
LA  - fr
SN  - 0397-7870
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -