L’inépuisabilité de l’œuvre littéraire: Réflexion autour de L’œuvre ouverte de Umberto Eco

Abstract This paper focuses on the main claim of Umberto Eco’s Open Work , according to which any work art is an inherently ambiguous message, i.e. inexhaustible, or in principle likely be object infinite number interpretations. It does so, first, by restricting itself specific topic literary art, and, secondly, making a detour, that Eco himself suggests, though he not really explore it, via Sartre’s ontological phenomenology. detour will eventually lead reader from Being and Nothingness What Literature? ; “theory phenomenon” his description poetic prosaic attitude; theory literature qua ambiguity-inexhaustibility openness esthetic phenomenon. Finally, it capacity phenomenology ultimately clarify, provide foundation to, own theory, as well latter’s originality with regard former, studied accounted for.