Subjectivité Du Narrateur Dans Jacques Le Fataliste Et Son Maître De Denis Diderot: Manifestations, Effets Diégétiques Et Esthétiques

Abstract

This study examines the subjectivity of the narrator in Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître. The authoritative and subjective voice of the narrator in this text affects the narration of the story in such a way that it is difficult to classify this work as pure fiction. This research seeks to elucidate the various ways in which the narrator's subjectivity manifests itself in the narrative. Specifically, it focuses in distinguishing between subjective discourse and pure narrative both from the linguistics aspect and through the component of point of view. The analyses carried out in this study reveal that the subjectivity of the narrator in a narrative text is signaled through certain linguistic elements and that their discursive properties in the novel text blur the boundaries between the fictional world of story and the factual world and at the same time produce a reading effect that is felt by the reader as stranger to the novel genre. In the end, this study shows that the fundamentally subjective style of the narrative is an aesthetic technique used by Diderot to simulate oral communication in the narrative text in an attempt to reduce the effect of fiction and to create, through this maneuver, an essayistic illusion in the mind of the reader.