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Restituire la complessità del reale superando la crisi del linguaggio all’indomani del secondo conflitto mondiale rappresenta per Georges Perec il fine di una nuova letteratura che sia capace di interpretare il suo rapporto con il reale attraverso forme inedite. Così, a partire dal saggio su Robert Antelme (Robert Antelme ou la vérité en littérature), Perec sperimenta nuove strategie narrative riprendendo contemporaneamente il progetto autobiografico che aveva più volte abbandonato. Questo lavoro non intende quindi solo sottolineare l’importanza della scrittura di Antelme nella definizione del Perec più maturo, ma vuole anche dimostrare quale sia stata la funzione di Un Homme qui dort nel progetto autobiografico di Perec. Si rifletterà in particolare sul concetto di attesa intesa in questo romanzo come prefigurazione di una scrittura futura, quella stessa scrittura che in W ou le souvenir d’enfance permetterà a Perec di accedere ai ricordi del suo passato. For Georges Perec, restoring the complexity of the real by overcoming the crisis of language in the aftermath of the Second World War is the aim of a new literature that succeeds in describing its relationship with reality through a new form. Starting from the essay on Robert Antelme (Robert Antelme ou la vérité en littérature), Perec not only experiments with new narrative strategies, but also resumes and advances the autobiographical project that had abandoned several times. This paper will not only be underlining the importance of Antelme’s writing in defining the more mature Perec, but also demonstrate the function of Un Homme qui dort in Perec’s autobiographical project. It will reflect on the concept of waiting, understood in this novel as a prefiguration of future writing, the same writing that will allow Perec to access the memories of his past and that we will find again in W ou le souvenir d’enfance.

A study on the grammaticalization of deverbal, denominal and deadjectival prepositions in French out of Latin ablative absolute (AA) constructions has highlighted two main points of contact that could have allowed the process to take place: the preservation both of the original predicative quality and of the primal circumstantial syntactic function of the item-under-change. As a by-product, this study has provided arguments for the hypothesis that a residual, osmotic relationship could persist between Latin synthetic syntax and modern-French analytic syntax. In particular, this paper focuses on three statements of fact: (1) the grammaticalization of deverbal and denominal prepositions appears to be an imperfect process that has often left a double syntax as a legacy in modern French (ex. excepté ma soeur vs. ma soeur exceptée); (2) the synthetic origin of deverbal and denominal prepositions is responsible for their unique behavior amongst French prepositional devices; finally, (3) other syntactic constructions (such as participial or nominal sentences) can be found in modern French which clearly take a circumstantial value in the clause without relying on any external, grammatical coding device specifically devoted to the expression of marginal syntactic relations. These facts suggest that the circumstantial value of the ablative case may have followed two preservative paths: either (1) it has found in the French prepositional domain a consistent category where to survive both formally and functionally or (2) it has survived in the French syntax as a silent, deep functional category in spite of the loss of formal inflection. If this second point, in particular, could be confirmed by further research, this would mean that synthesis – that is, the power to convey semantic, morphologic and syntactic information as a whole – still has a place at the core of the French linguistic system.