Research On The Novel Creation Of Philippe Forest

French writer Philippe Forest is a special writer.He had been quite content to do be a simple literary critic before age thirty-three,while living a happy life with his beautiful wife and lovely daughter.Unfortunately,when he was thirty-three,his beloved daughter passed away from sudden illness,which gave him huge grief,deep mourning and even anger.This prompted him to start the novel creation,hoping to dig his own memory and find the port for his emotions.Forest keeps trying various writing experiments with the same death of his child theme,and writes new novels one after another,constantly seeking the best way to present the death story.He aims to reproduce his own life experience and at the same time,he also intends to arouse the common feeling of mankind and to reach the common mind of human being.This thesis would take Forest's four novels including L'enfant eternel?Toute la nuit?Sarinagara and Le Chat de Schrodinger as the main research objects which consist the five chapters of my thesis.The introduction is about Forest's life experience,the translation and research status of his work and the significance?ideas and methods of this research.Chapter One analyzes the same death theme in Forest's novels and the way it's gradually faded,and also sorts out the death story which is shared by all the four novels.Chapter Two analyzes the writing experiments in Forest's novels,including spiral structure novel,third-person autobiographical novel and post-modern narrative experiment.Chapter Three shows Forest's creation is under the double impact of the modern French literature,represented by Tel Quel and autofiction,and Japanese literature,represented by Watakushi Shosetsu and Oe Kenzaburo.The final chapter gives an overall evaluation about Forest's creative works.