La voie de sortie du roman: le personnage dans un balcon en forêt de Julien Gracq
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Abstract
The starting point of this thesis is the genre indication of "récit", placed on the cover of Un balcon en forêt by its author. Published in 1958, this book is most often considered as Julien Gracq's last novel : thereafter, the novelist turned to more intimate and fragmented genres. The purpose of this thesis will be to question Gracq's withdrawal from the novel in the post-war context. This will allow us to understand how a writer who did not, a priori, subscribe to the "age of suspicion" described by Nathalie Sarraute, still underwent a certain form of "crisis of the novel". The first chapter of this study will present the particularities of the "gracquian" waiting in Un balcon en forêt. We will see that this waiting, unlike its manifestations in Gracq's earlier novels, places the characters in a framework of broken relations with the outside world. The protagonist Grange's response to this new existential situation will be the subject of our second chapter. Grange, who differs from the other characters by his awareness of the utter impossibility of an authentic life, refuses to act upon the many alternatives generated by his mind. In the third chapter, we will see that the novel offers no resistance to its character's destructive work. By allowing Grange to avoid all confrontations with the social world and by providing him with a habitable space outside of it, the novel is bereaved of its constitutive irony and collapses onto itself. At the end of this thesis, we will revisit Gracq's very own "crisis of the novel" to show that the impossibility of the genre was revealed to him through the experience of writing Un balcon en forêt : the way out of the novel, suggested in the character of Grange, turned out to be the only possible way for Gracq.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".