The study focuses on the late Renart le Contrefait, who, in the group of Renardian epigones, occupies an intermediate place between, on the one hand, Renart le Bestourné and le Couronnement Renart, who transform the fox into a satirical allegory, and, on the other, Renart le Novel, who mixes tones and messages and “breaks” the allegory as much as the traditional character of Renard. The study focuses in particular on the Author, the narrator and the protagonist. The subject is interesting insofar as the author declares, at the beginning, to use Renard to be able to say things without having to suffer reprisals. The Author takes on the mask of Renard to say 'by covert escript' what he does not dare to express openly. Little by little, however, Renard “becomes autonomous”. The essential is then played out by the pre-texts which are summoned, here analyzed in their functionality. This happens through three splits: The Author (A) becomes a character (when he talks about his life: it is B), and hides behind the character of Fox (C), which is superimposed on his voice, mixing the functions of author, narrator and character (D). Between the poles of A and D, the entire history of the man unfolds, through many ancient and modern texts, divided into themes/main threads which give order to a disjointed and totalizing work. - [Abstract]

Language: French

Locators: DOI: 10.1075/rein.21.06lec