« Point de réponse, mot »

« Point de réponse, mot »

Author(s): Marc de Launay / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: syntax;function;translation;poetry;

Les mots risquent fort, à les considérer isolément, de ressembler aux paires de chaussettes enroulées l’une sur l’autre et dont l’illusoire compacité enchantait le jeune Benjamin s’émerveillant de voir se défaire si aisément cette image illusoire de la totalité. Mais sans doute ne sont-ils rien d’autre qu’un enroulement provisoire des registres sémantiques et sémiotiques. Il importe donc de les renvoyer à l’historicité qui les maintient et à la syntaxe qui leur assure une fonction dans un discours particulier. If we consider them in isolation, words risking appearing like those pairs of socks rolled up one on top of each other, and whose illusory compactness enchanted the young Benjamin, who marvelled to see this illusory image of totality unravel so easily. Surely words are nothing other than a provisional arrangement of semantic and semiotic registers. It is therefore important to return them to the historicity which maintains them, and the syntax which assures them a function in a given discourse.

Call of the One, obligation of the Being. A dialectic treatise of the Renaissance: the De ente et uno of Pico della Mirandola

Appel de l’Un, nécessité de l’Être. Un traité dialectique de la Renaissance : le De ente et uno de Pico della Mirandola

Author(s): Bruno Pinchard / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: humanism;metaphysical philosophy;substantial form;catastrophe;analogy;

Bruno Pinchard reprend le grand débat sur l’Être et l’Un qui a partagé Ficino et Pico autour de l’interprétation du Parménide de Platon. L’auteur montre que la défense de l’Être par Pico n’est pas seulement la marque d’un retour à l’ontologie scolastique, mais appartient à l’épreuve de l’existence qui est consubstantielle aux propositions magiques avancées dans le 900 thèses. Bruno Pinchard takes up the great debate on the Being and the One which Ficino and Pico shared over the interpretation of Parménide de Platon. The author shows that Pico’s defence of the Being is not only the mark of a return to scholastic ontology, but belongs to the proofs of existence, consubstantial to the magical propositions put forward in the 900 thèses.

La torpeur engourdissante chez Henri Thomas. Entre pathos et ascèse

La torpeur engourdissante chez Henri Thomas. Entre pathos et ascèse

Author(s): Marie-Hélène Gauthier / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: silence;retreat;desertion;loyalty to the self philosophy

Le retrait hors de l’espace des significations communément échangées peut faire figure de désertion. Mais il peut avoir cette vertu du silence, qui permet de retrouver le foyer matriciel des possibilités de sens et d’existence. Le silence, la torpeur engourdissante, la sensibilité rétractile : façons similaires de retrouver la puissance pure, fil directeur de la quête thomasienne. Retreating from communally-exchanged significations can seem like a desertion. Yet, this gesture can also have the virtue of silence, allowing for the rediscovery of the matrix of possible meanings and existences. Silence, oppressive torpor, retractable sensibility : similar ways of rediscovering the pure power and guiding thread of the Thomasian quest.

Exile and the Kingdom. Sol[id]arity of silence.

L’Exil et le Royaume. Sol[id]arité du silence

Author(s): Pierre Garrigues / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: Albert Camus;L'Exil et le Royaume;silence;solidarity;light;

L’ œuvre de Camus est marquée par le silence, à l’origine celui de sa mère,quasiment aphasique et sourde. Ce silence, il le cherche en des expériences extatiques au sein du paysage méditerranéen, mais aussi chez des êtres qui n’ont pas droit à la parole. Dans L’Exil et le Royaume, il met en scène des personnages déchirés par des contradictions douloureuses qui sont aussi les siennes : comment dire le silence ? Camus’ oeuvre is marked by silence, which was originally that of his mother, almost aphasic and deaf. He searches for this silence in ecstatic experiences at the heart of the Mediterranean paradise but also in beings who do not have right to language. In L’Exil et le Royaume, he stages characters torn up by the painful contradictions which are also his: how to speak about silence ?

Writers, guardians of silence

Les écrivains, ces gardiens du silence

Author(s): Marc Courtieu / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: dialectics;speaking;silence;literature;quiet conversation

Comment, en tant qu’écrivain, parler, écrire sur et à propos du silence ? Certains se penchent sur le silence comme source qui précède tout langage. D’autres s’intéressent aux « conversations silencieuses », où tant de choses sont échangées. Reste que la plupart du temps, les silences opacifient la parole, l’alourdissent. Mais si « silence et parole étaient [peut-être] la même chose » (Coetzee) ? How can a writer talk or write about silence ? Some consider silence as the source that precedes all language. Others focus on ‘silent conversations’ in which ideas are exchanged. Most of the time, silences make speech opaque and heavy. But what if ‘silence and speech [were] the same thing’ (Coetzee) ?

Listening to silences

À l’écoute des silences

Author(s): Odette Barbero / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: noise;language;mysticism;history;communication;

Le silence admet une pluralité de figures et de sens. Condition et fondement de mystique, creuset heuristique pour l’art ou la philosophie, son imposition sociopolitique à des peuples ou des catégories sociales a une valeur négative. Jamais absolu, il admet une conception qui le situe hors de ce binaire, celle d’une époque où les frontières tendent à s’effacer. Silence allows for a plurality of figures and meanings. At once the condition and foundation of mysticism and a heuristic melting pot for art and philosophy, its sociopolitical imposition to people or social categories has a negative value. Never absolute, it is situated outside this binary, in a place in which barriers are broken down.

François Jacqmin. Describing snow and expanse to define silence

François Jacqmin. Décrire la neige et l’étendue pour dire le silence

Author(s): Fabrice Schurmans / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: François Jacqmin;silence;emptiness;expanse;Francophone poetry

Le Livre de la neige (1990) du poète belge François Jacqmin (1929-1992) traite des notions de vide, de silence et d’immensité. Cet article l’analyse à l’intersection de trois axes : la poétique de Jacqmin, le contexte plus large de la poésie francophone de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle ainsi que le contexte particulier de la pratique littéraire belge francophone. Le Livre de la neige (1990) by the Belgian poet François Jacqmin (1929-1992) deals with notions of emptiness, silence, and immensity. This article analyses the intersection between three axes: the poetics of Jacqmin, the larger context of Francophone poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, and the particular context of Belgian Francophone literary practice.

From Rimbaud to Luca. Silent ways?

De Rimbaud à Luca. Des voies silencieuses ?

Author(s): Vincent Teixeira / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: silence;Rimbaud;Luca;Bataille;Rodanski

Avant même son adieu à la poésie, Rimbaud engage toute la poésie moderne dans les abîmes d’une parole devenue aussi vertigineuse que lacunaire, hantée par le silence et l’impuissance. Écrire ce qui ne peut être dit, telle est la voie/voix des traqueurs d’inconnu. Mais n’est-ce pas là un avatar des grands gestes oraculaires et lyriques, à l’écoute des « choses de l’infini» (Hugo) ? Even before his farewell to poetry, Rimbaud brought modern poetry into the abyss of dizzying and fragmentary language, haunted by silence and powerlessness. Writing what cannot be said is the way/word of those who hunt down the unknown. But is this not a transformation of those great oracular and lyric gestures, listening out for those ‘infinite things’ (Hugo) ? Keywords : silence, Rimbaud, Luca, Bataille, Rodanski

SIlence, negative source

Le silence, source négative

Author(s): Antoine Jurga / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: deaf resonance;Baudelaire;Quignard;silence;errance

L’oeuvre déconcertante procède du silence. Elle puise sa puissance au lieu de son origine muette. L’artiste ramène du monde à l’écart, des bribes, destraces à peine audibles, à peine visibles, qui au-delà du langage commun,« travaillent » l’oeuvre. Sans silence conservé, l’oeuvre ne peut nous transmettre la part du mystère qui surgit quand l’homme observe le monde. The disconcerting work proceeds from silence. It takes its power, rather than its mute origin, from it. The artist takes back snippets and scarcely audible or visible traces – beyond common language – from the world, and works them into his or her oeuvre. Without this silence, the work cannot communicate the mystery which emerges when humans observe the world.

The said and the unsaid in the "roman scolaire"

Le dit et le non-dit dans le « roman scolaire »

Author(s): Svetlana Sheypak / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: school;discipline;hierarchy;fragmented narrative;identity;

L’article aborde le problème de non-dit dans l’univers scolaire à travers trois romans : Up the Down Staircase de Bel Kaufman, Entre les murs de François Bégaudeau et Lorsque les anges se reposent de Marina Aromshtam. Le caractère fragmentaire de la narration traduit les malaises de communication au sein du système qui engendre un univers rigide, empêchant la quête identitaire des jeunes. This article approaches the problem of the ‘non-said’ in the school context by looking at three novels : Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman, Entre les murs by François Bégaudeauet, and Lorsque les anges se reposent by Marina Aromshtam. The fragmentary character of the narrative translates the difficulties of communication at the heart of a system which engenders a rigid universe that inhibits the identity quests of young people.

The silence of noise (literality)

Le silence du bruit (la littéralité)

Author(s): Patricia Apostol / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: silence;being quiet;noise;literality;literal;Blanchot;

Selon la relation que le taire, la suspension et le calme comme modes du silence entretiennent avec le bruit, on a trois grands types de textes silencieux : ésotérique, hermétique et littéral ; cet article se penchera surtout sur le dernier,en le retrouvant dans les textes littéraires de Maurice Blanchot. If we follow the relationship that being quiet, suspension, and calm as modes of silence have with noise, we see three main types of silent text emerge : esoteric, hermetic,and literal. This article will focus above all on the last, which it uncovers in the literary texts of Maurice Blanchot.

Albert Camus. From the kingdom of silence to the world of creation

Albert Camus. Du royaume du silence au monde de la création

Author(s): Samara Fernanda A. O. L. S. Geske / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: silence;creation;writing;absurd;love;

Le silence maternel a été fondamental pour déclencher l’écriture du jeune Camus. Il se lie profondément à la découverte de l’absurde, telle qu’elle est traitée dans L’Étranger et Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Le silence entre la mère et le fils secrète aussi de l’amour, comme en témoigne Le Premier Homme. Maternal silence was a fundamental trigger for the writing of the young Camus. It is linked to the discovery of absurdity, as treated in L’Étranger and Le Mythe de Sisyphe. The silence between mother and son can also produce love, as Le Premier Homme shows.

Marcel Proust. In search of the true life or the apology of silence

Marcel Proust. À la recherche de la vraie vie ou l’apologie du silence

Author(s): Meryème Rami / Language(s): French / Issue: 13/2014

Keywords: reading;writing;silence;creation;mystery;

Cet article s’interrogesur le rôle de la lecture chez Marcel Proust et son rapport à l’écriture. Si la lecture est une solitude créative, le silence est la condition même du passage à la création de l'oeuvre. This article interrogates the role of reading in Proust’s work and its rapport with writing. If reading is a form of creative solitude, silence is the condition of the passage to creation.

Abstracts

Abstracts

Author(s): Anonymous Anonymous / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2015

Uncertain Hopes and Vague Doubts (IV)

Bizonytalan remények és tétova kételyek (IV.)

Author(s): György Poszler / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015

Sándor Petőfi’s Supposed Grave in Székelykeresztúr

„Ahol Petőfit majd szüntelen temették”

Author(s): Gábor Szűcs / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015

Keywords: Sándor Petőfi; Székelykeresztúr (Cristuru Secuiesc); folklore; legend; cult; reception

This study examines the legend of Sándor Petőfi’s grave in Székelykeresztúr (Romania). It illustrates the process of change that is created by the uncertainty of memory and the characteristics of folklore narrative tradition. The paper examines the different versions of the myth from the first written record of the alleged grave (1902) until our present. The first written mention of Petőfi’s death in Székelykeresztúr comes from an unidentified person and the grave that can be visited nowadays has been built by a mortician who hoped to give new impetus to his enterprise by making the locals believe that he buried the well-known poet. The overview of different legends of Petőfi can help literary historians understand why readers stick to different variations of refuted legends about Petőfi.

Four Stories of Imprisonment about the Essence of Ritual Holidays

Négy börtöntörténet az ünnep lényegéről

Author(s): Vilmos Tánczos / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015

Keywords: ritual holidays; the sacred; sacrifice; oral history; community; power

The author presents through four stories of imprisonment recounted as oral history the general anthropological characteristics of ritual holidays: the conquest of time through ritual holidays, each holiday is centred around an idea, ritual holidays are connected to a sense of community, the holiday expresses a hope for the future, the ritual of the holiday is a sacred event of sacrifice, dictatorship always aspires to control ritual holidays, etc.

Children’s Rite-Games in Szék (Sic)

Rítusjátékok a széki gyermekvilágban

Author(s): Erika Tasnády / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015

Keywords: children’s rite-game; Szék (Sic); wedding; funeral rite

The present work proposes an analysis of a kind of popular child’s game from the Transylvanian Szék (Sic) village in which children imitated wedding or funeral rites.In the beginning, these were formed spontaneously; the children got together, shared the roles and played the rites from beginning to end: they walked around singing,dancing, reciting poetry, etc. Teenage girls had a similar game bringing more impishness and humour into their performance. In the communist era, the young people from Szék even performed their wedding rituals on the scene of the Opera House in Kolozsvár (Cluj). Although such performances weren't especially ideological, they were in accordance with the official attitude towards folklore at the time. Their function was different from that of the games performed spontaneously in the street. Beginning roughly from the 1980s we see another type of ritual game in which children act out weddings in front of their parents. This type of role play is different again and it reflects another approach.

“Homo festivus” in the Second Series of the Korunk

A „homo festivus” a Korunk második folyamában

Author(s): Erika Tekei / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015

Keywords: celebration; feast; “homo festivus”; community life; socialism; Romania; Korunk

The article examines the celebrations held by Hungarian communities in Romania in the years of socialism on the basis of the ethnographic and anthropological articles published in the second series of the journal Korunk (1957-1989). In addition to – or against – the compulsory holidays and political festivals, Christian religious holidays, feasts related to the agricultural calendar, and individual feasts had their role in creating and maintaining identity,strengthening and regulating community life. But ethnographers and anthropologists have drawn attention to signs of crisis and problems of modernization as a consequence of the expansion of the socialist culture and the new way of life.

Székely Institutional and Community Fate

Székely intézményi és közösségi sors

Author(s): Ferenc Váradi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2015