L'organisation du récit dans Pelléas et Mélisande de M. Maeterlinck

Nowadays, the discourse tn Maeterlinck's dramas seems to be a web of faults concerning the story levels as well as the meanings. L'Organisation du recit dans Pelleas et Melisande de Maeterlinck analyses the text regarding these aspects which confer to the play a dreamlike character. The dream atmosphere is mainly suggested by a narrative background interfering into the plot: the symbolic message.Our survey of the play tends to examine the paradoxal and incomplete nature of the events in their accounts. The reports also contain potential new facts and stories' material to be developped. It is the laborious introduction, the many repetitions and the unanswered questions that involve the play into the quest of a story. This process puts the reader into the experience of the theatre de l'attente. Consequently we suggest the following hypothesis: the audience, or the reader, does not assist to what the play seems to show, but to the symbolization of the characters' subconscious created by the story levels and intertextuality. The traditional scene is relegated far beyond the reality and the reflexive conclusion of the play reiterates the initial scene.We think that the rehabilitation of the Ancestral Order creates a new potential narrative background--a story to come--since the play showed many motives borrowed to prior legends, the Bible, and other dramas. The symbolic complexity muddle up the play and converge mainly to draw a late feodal submission to fate