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Le sens du toucher
Recueil d'essais publiés dans divers catalogues et publications et relatifs aux rapports entre écriture et peinture, examinant la réalité des sens à travers leur représentation.
Common Scents
The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making by tracing the appearance of odors in modern German and French poetry. Jonas Rosenbrück argues that smell's persistence undermines modernity's self-image as an ocular age and shows how scents index a veritable "revolution of the senses." Such a revolution, as a redistribution of the senses, would make the common and shared character of our existence in scented atmospheres perceptible. Bringing contemporary ecocritical interest in atmospheres, air, and the senses into dialogue with literary criticism, theories of modernity, and politi...
Jacques Réda
In Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost, Aaron Prevots studies the work of this major contemporary French writer since the 1950s—poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. He particularly examines Réda’s explorations of place, including how the ‘world’s energy’ becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one’s arms. Réda embodies ‘being there, almost’ because he wanders with great wisdom yet renounces any glory in this metaphorical dance. He aligns us with the outer world’s rhythms and time’s passage. Fleeting waves of perception create a voluptuous, unified whole. In considering the arc of Réda’s works from 1952-2015, Aaron Prevots locates a progression from post-Baudelairean flânerie to commemoration of childhood, classical antiquity, fellow writers, jazz, physics, swing, theology, and trains.
From Ciné-goûters to Screenings for Cinephilie
In the book establish an initial assessment on the life of cinemas belonging to the Instituts français and the Alliances françaises.
André du Bouchet
In André du Bouchet: Poetic Forms of Attention, Emma Wagstaff provides the first book-length study in English of this major poet of the second half of the twentieth century. She shows how Du Bouchet’s rigorous and innovative creative and critical writing advances our understanding of attention. Du Bouchet is known as a post-war poet of the natural world and the space of the page. Far from just a solitary writer, however, he engaged with others through his work as editor, critic, and translator, and his involvement in the protests of May 1968. Emma Wagstaff shows how his writing demonstrates nuanced attention to language, time, nature, and art, and incites a ‘slow’ response on the part of the reader.
The Play of Light
Drawing from five contemporary French poets—Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet—Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not-being and being, on communication, and on secrets. Smock also includes thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Giorgio Agamben, who contribute to the conversation, as do Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot. Though the poems considered here are often thought difficult, Smock maintains a light touch throughout. She writes in an accessible, even pleasurable style while contributing to the scholarly study of literature at the border shared by poetry and philosophy
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation
The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much more than inspire its first major writers, it materially shaped their works, as this comparative study reveals through close textual analysis of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's appropriations of French literature and culture. Sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not, their appropriations take multiple forms, ranging from allusions, invocations and citations to adaptations and tra...
Camille Laurens, le kaléidoscope d'une écriture hantée
Le spectre de la « mère morte », une mère physiquement présente mais émotionnellement absente, hante l'œuvre de Camille Laurens. Cette hantise laisse ses traces dans l’écriture romanesque de Camille Laurens, qu’on pourrait décrire comme un kaléidoscope : à chaque secousse, les mêmes thématiques, motifs et images obsessionnels forment une nouvelle..
Compléments à la théorie sexuelle et sur l’amour
« Naissant, ne parlant pas, sans force, projeté dans les airs, nu, pleurant, surgissant dans l'orée du soleil... » Qu'est-ce que les anciens Romains entendaient par enfance ? Pourquoi, chez les anciens Grecs, le premier des dieux est-il Chaos, avant même le ciel et la nuit ? Qu'est-ce que le sommeil ? Qu'est-ce qu'une énigme ? Que veut dire Tirésias dans sa réponse alambiquée sur l'immense plaisir que ressentent les femmes ? Quelle est l'origine du mot sex ? Qu'est-ce qu'un fantôme ? Une sirène ? La Lorelei ? Psychè ? Hérô ? Comment la vie intra-utérine se prolonge-t-elle dans la vie atmosphérique sans y trouver de fin ? Pourquoi l'expérience humaine serait-elle bornée par le langage alors qu'il lui a fallu l'apprendre ? En quoi son destin serait-il voué à la vie en société ? Pascal Quignard est né en 1948 à Verneuil-sur-Avre (France). Il vit à Paris. Il a écrit entre autres Vie secrète, Le sexe et l'effroi, La nuit sexuelle, Angoisse et beauté, L'amour conjugal, Dans ce jardin qu'on aimait, L'amour la mer, Les Heures heureuses.
