[Rubrique (article)] The autobiographical project
Casanova's autobiographical...
[Rubrique (article)] Le projet autobiographique
Le projet autobiographique de...
[Rubrique (article)] Fact, fiction, fabrication
We saw in the introduction how Casanova's autobiographical project differed from autobiography as a genre, with its reading contract and submission to public judgment. Casanova writes life, projecting himself through writing into a renewed experience of life's pleasures. This project implies no...
[Rubrique (article)] Fait, fiction, affabulation
Nous avons vu en introduction combien le projet autobiographique de Casanova différait de l’autobiographie comme genre, avec son contrat de lecture et sa soumission à un jugement public. Casanova écrit la vie, il se projette par l’écriture dans une expérience renouvelée du plaisir de la vie. Ce...
[Rubrique (article)] Duras, the empty stage
[Rubrique (article)] Extending a hand, unmasking one's gaze
Acis and Galatea - Poussin
In his...
[Rubrique (article)] La main tendue, le regard démasqué
Acis et Galatée - Poussin
Dans sa...
[Rubrique (article)] War of the Worlds, the impossible encounter
Meeting and proper meeting
In classical language, encounter is understood in two different ways. There's the randomness of the encounter, which...
[Rubrique (article)] La Guerre des mondes, la rencontre impossible
Rencontrer et rencontrer juste
Dans la langue classique, la rencontre s’entend de deux façons différentes. Il y a certes l’aléa de la...
[Rubrique (article)] Narrative devices in Robbe-Grillet's Angélique
I. Angélique : from meaning to installation
Autobiography and photography
The modern rise of autobiography is deeply linked to the technological revolution that over the past two centuries has brutally transformed all processes of representation. Whereas painting...
[Rubrique (article)] Dispositifs de récit dans Angélique de Robbe-Grillet
I. Angélique : de la signification à l’installation
Autobiographie et photographie
L’essor moderne de l’autobiographie est profondément lié à la révolution technologique qui depuis deux siècles a brutalement transformé tous les processus de la représentation....
[Rubrique (article)] Layout, deconstruction of visibilities
At the beginning of Alain Robbe-Grillet's novelistic enterprise, we shouldn't imagine Balzac, but the fictional device of the bedroom, as systematized by Edgar Poe and popularized by detective fiction. At the heart of the fiction is a room in which an event has taken place, would have...
[Rubrique (article)] Disposition des lieux, déconstruction des visibilités
Au commencement de l’entreprise romanesque d’Alain Robbe-Grillet, il ne faut pas imaginer Balzac, mais le dispositif fictionnel de la chambre, tel qu’Edgar Poe l’a systématisé et le roman policier l’a popularisé. Au cœur de la fiction se tient une chambre dans laquelle un événement a eu, ...
[Rubrique (article)] Lacan's real
Lacanians would be justified in criticizing this too partial, too one-sided perhaps, clarification of a complex notion, and one which, in Lacan, has evolved. Its only justification is its aim, which is to clarify for our students of art and literature what we mean by this term.
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