La musique comme moyen de restructuration du texte littéraire. Le cas de Joy Sorman, Anne Savelli, Pierric Bailly et Lydie Salvayre

This study focuses on the interactions between literature and music, from the perspective not only of the “novel”, but of the “novel-as-work-of-art” — that is, the novel becomes a “medium” for the experience of a reader-spectator, as well as of the writer himself. The aim is less to “express” than to “create”. The text becomes an “apparatus” that induces a specific situation, a particular relationship with the work of the writer-artist and with the one who receives the work, the reader-spectator. Beyond quotation, theme, or narrative structure inspired by musical principles, we asked ourselves whether prose influenced by music acquires particular narrative forms, and we were able to observe the existence of diverse materials whose common thread lies in the fact that the various attempts within prose demonstrate how literary writing has been revitalized through contact with music, which brings new rhythms and a different relationship with language. The texts of Joy Sorman, Anne Savelli, Pierric Bailly, and Lydie Salvayre have shed light on the explicit or latent capacities of recent prose to nourish music, and on the possibility that literary discourse may consider music not only as a model for a rhythmic and fragmentary discourse, but that it may above all represent an opportunity for a restructuring of literary material. Conceived at the intersection of literature and music, this study bears the mark of a dual ambition that has relied less on an interdisciplinary or intersemiotic approach than on the attempt to reduce disciplinary and artistic ruptures and separations.