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Bakešová, Václava (2019), Prostor a jeho obývání. Zobrazení prostoru v díle Marie Noëlové, Suzanne Renaudové, Christiane Singerové a Sylvie Germainové

Author(s): Marie Voždová / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2020

The review of: Bakešová, Václava (2019), Prostor a jeho obývání. Zobrazení prostoru v díle Marie Noëlové, Suzanne Renaudové, Christiane Singerové a Sylvie Germainové [L´espace et son habitation. La représentation de l´espace dans l´oeuvre de Marie Noël, Suzanne Renaud, Christiane Singer et Sylvie Germain], Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 194 p.

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LE « DON DU COEUR » ET SES MÉTAMORPHOSES. DU PARADIGME
COURTOIS À L’ICONOGRAPHIE MÉDIÉVALE

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LE « DON DU COEUR » ET SES MÉTAMORPHOSES. DU PARADIGME COURTOIS À L’ICONOGRAPHIE MÉDIÉVALE

Author(s): Luminiţa Diaconu / Language(s): French Issue: 32/2022

Story in verses of Picardy origin, preserved in two manuscripts from the 14th century, Le Roman du Castelain de Couci et de la Dame de Fayel is part of a larger corpus of texts centered around an adulterous relationship that a jealous husband cruelly chastises by a cardiophage meal. However, if the Franco-Provençal corpus consists of several brief narratives dating from the 13th century, prior to the novel (The Lai of Ignaure, the vidas and the razós of the troubadour Guillem de Cabestany), only the novel, which also proposes the courteous version of this story, presents the love tokens exchange between the lovers. Our analysis will focus initially on these gifts and their symbolical functions: the letters exchanged by the lovers, literary objects valued in courteous literature in the 12th-13th centuries, as well as a sleeve and braids that the lady offers to the knight before his departure in106crusade; finally, a coffer sent by the latter to his lady, which contains a letter and the lover’s heart, extracted just after his death by the valet. In the second part of our study, we have emphasized the influence of this literary motif on medieval sensitivities, given the success that it enjoyed in medieval iconography until the 15th century. Indeed, in the area of diffusion of this novel - namely the North and East of the Kingdom of France, Flanders, as well as the Parisian region and the Rhine Valley - the gift of the heart was represented in particular on objects such as mirrors in ivory or the caskets, objects clearly connected to the feminine universe, but also on the tapestry.

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La grande histoire au prisme de la petite histoire dans les Mémoires de Voltaire

Author(s): Stanisław Fiszer / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

Voltaire composed his Memoirs of the Life of Monsieur de Voltaire: Written by Himself at approximately the same time as his novel Candide, or Optimism published in 1759. For this reason, these Memoirs occupy a central place in the philosopher’s work. Combining ironic comment on the important historic events and salacious gossip of the world, they trace very briefly 25 years of Voltaire’s life. The author of this paper tries to analyse the relationship between the memorialist’s style, strongly coloured with the grotesque, and his vision of history. Next, he juxtaposes the Memoirs with Voltaire’s historical works. Finally, he demonstrates the close affinity between their non-linear representations of history, despite differences in their style.

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Mémoire et autobiographie dans l ’œuvre de Claude Simon

Author(s): Mokhtar Belarbi / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

Memory occupies a privileged place in works of Claude Simon. Through an analysis of Les Georgiques, L ’Acacia and Le Jardin des Plantes, our goal in this article is to show that Claude Simon did not seek to write an “autofiction” or a “historical novel”, but to write a literary autobiography. His ultimate goal was not to “recover lost time”, but to inscribe “lost time” in literature. This study demonstrates that the new form of autobiography initiated by Claude Simon is entirely distinct from a traditional autobiography. It is written by means of the writer’s tireless recourse to stimuli, that is to say by questioning texts written by people who have found themselves in similar situations. It is an auto-sensorio-graphy: the writing is essentially based on a description of sensations, not facts. It is also an auto-thanato-graphy since death is the central character.

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Les collectionneurs chez Pascal Quignard – s ’accrocher obstinément au pass

Author(s): Andreea-Maria PREDA / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

The purpose of this article is to highlight – in a comparative approach – the versatility of the role of collectibles in the process of recollection among collectors in certain novels by Pascal Quignard. The analysis of the memorial discourse of collectors reveals two aspects: the different relationship to the value of the object (museum or intimate) and the power to trigger emotions. The discourse balances between an impersonal evocation, with emphasis on the material importance, the testimonial and aesthetic dimension of art objects from ancient times and a passionate and subjective description of small, banal objects, but charged with psychological meanings. The article demonstrates that excessively relating to time-/trace-objects by virtue of their documentary or commemorative value will lead to a failure of the memorisation process. Paradoxically, the collector always remains in search of the lost memory, despite the excess of material evidence he holds.

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Errance existentielle, mémoire du corps et langage primordial dans N’zid de Malika Mokeddem

Author(s): Frank Dalmas / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

This article explores a phenomenological outlook in the work of Algerian writer Malika Mokeddem. Such an approach departs from the standard scholarship on this author and proposes a wide-ranging alternative to postcolonial studies. The themes of nomadism, language of origin and corporeal expression are investigated through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s “chair” and the pairing notions of “parole parlante” and “parole parlée.” A strong case study can be made with her novel N’zid (2001), which exploits the amnesia of the female protagonist sailing alone on the Mediterranean Sea, castaway from human interactions and without clues of her whereabouts. Inside and outside worlds meet up as she embarks on a silent journey to her innermost self and physical fantasies. Through uninhibited drawings and by reminiscing sensual flashbacks, she soothes her impaired memory and seizes back her blurred identity.

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La poétique de la (post)mémoire dans un roman (post)migratoire. Une lecture des Mots de Russie d’Isabelle Bielecki

Author(s): Przemysław Szczur / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

The article constitutes an analysis of Les Mots de Russie, an autobiographical novel by Isabelle Bielecki, a contemporary Belgian writer of Russian-Polish origin. The theoretical framework of the study is provided by two key concepts: Jean-François Perrin’s novelistic poetics of memory and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The author analyses the composition of the text, based on a problematic (post) memory. Two plots coexist there: one that corresponds to the story of the return of memories and its circumstances; and the other which is made up of the content of these memories. The phenomenon of post-memory, the result of a historical trauma, modifies the novelistic poetics of memory by introducing a discontinuous structure, uncertainty about what happened, an ambiguous moral aspect of the figures of direct victims of the trauma, the story of the physical sufferings of its indirect victims, but also the possibility of overcoming the traumatic legacy through writing. (Post)memory is thus presented as a powerful creative stimulus.

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Remontée ou héritage ? Mémoire(s) de soi chez Yves Bonnefoy poète et traducteur

Author(s): Sara Bonanni,Simona Pollicino / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

This study explores different variations on the theme of “memory” in Yves Bonnefoy’s poetry and translations. In his latest works, the poet bequeaths to his readers his childhood memories entrusting them with a mission with which he invests poetry: to celebrate, against oblivion, the “memory” of the experience shared with others. Moreover, memory is both the source and the process of poetic creation, as his practise as a translator also demonstrates. If the task of the translator, according to Bonnefoy, coincides with a search, an exploration of the depths of the sea that is every language, in order to bring forth from the dark the light of a restorative word, then, by translating the verses of other poets, Bonnefoy relives the experience of poetry through a new poetic act, recalling each time the intuition and the emotion.

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Que la mémoire parle ! La rupture du pacte de silence grâce au français dans Manèges de Laura Alcoba

Author(s): Amandine Guillard / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

In this article, we will analyse the novel Manèges, written by the Franco-Argentinian author Laura Alcoba. More specifically, it is the connection with the French language, able as it is to echo the Argentinian memory, that will be the subject of this study. As she was silenced during her clandestine childhood in Buenos Aires, Laura Alcoba found an unhoped-for liberty in this language of exile, which sheemployed in order to put her experience, so far been silenced and unnamed, into words. As a medium of memory, the French language seems to be the only way to reconnect with the past whose expression in the mother tongue would probably be insuperable for the author. The distance created by French – synonymous with liberty and rebirth – from the Spanish language – synonymous with repression and silence – is the necessary condition for her memory to be finally able to speak.

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Cambodge, me voici : trauma, post-mémoire et construction d ’un espace culturel féminin dans le théâtre parlé de Jean-Baptiste Phou

Author(s): Tess Do,Darren Zhang / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

More than forty years after the end of the Khmer Rouge regime, the trauma of genocide still weighs heavily on the French-Cambodian diaspora. Confronted with the silence of the previous generation who refuses to talk about the genocidal past, Jean-Baptiste Phou uses Khmer spoken theatre to give voice to four Cambodian women and to portray their lives on stage. In this essay we propose a reading of Cambodge, me voici in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory. The intersection of the axes of the protagonists’ desire and the creation of a familial, feminine and maternal space will allow us to analyse the formation of this diasporic memory and its intra- and intergenerational transmission through two sororal and mother-daughter pairs. We postulate that the choice of casting and the staging of the two, French and Khmer, versions of the play transform the stage into a site of shared memory in which the role played by women in the reparation and transmission of Cambodian cultural heritage is revealed.

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Écrire la mémoire selon Caroline Lamarche. À propos de L ’Asturienne et de La Fin des abeilles

Author(s): Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

The article proposes a reading of two books by Caroline Lamarche, L’Asturienne and La Fin des abeilles, in the context of a reflection on family memory, which is considered here to be the foundation of the sense of self. The works in question are part of the broad current of autobiographical texts which have proliferated since 1980. Lamarche’s recent books offer an example of original memorial writing anchored in the uncertainty of the present time that seeks its roots and its raison d’être in the past. The article focuses on the poetics of these texts on the one hand, and, on the other, on the way in which the work of memory is manifested here. Anne Muxel’s sociological reflection on family memory complements this analysis by providing the necessary methodological tools. The notions of transmission, reviviscence and reflexivity proposed by Muxel demonstrate the meaning of remembrance, for both individual and community.

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Mémoires d’éditeurs (XXe – XXIe siècles)

Author(s): Daniel Sangsue / Language(s): English,French Issue: 12/2022

Based on a corpus of ten works (of the following publishers: Belfond,Bordas, Buchet, Corti, Girodias, Laffont, Nadeau, Nyssen, Pauvert, Verny and Zylberstein), this paper tries to define a small poetics of publishers’ memoirs, a genre which oscillates between an autobiography, a story and a portrait, and which mixes individual and collective memory. The study focuses on different components and topoï of this kind of narratives: a Bildungsroman, themes of passion for books and a book as an object, a foundation story, a description of a publisher’s tasks (choice of manuscripts, supporting authors, running for literary awards, etc.). Presenting a pragmatic view on the production of books, publishers’ memoirs offer a gallery of renewed portraits of different writers, as well as afford an alternative and interesting glance at literature, and in particular at: historical context of its production, material and pecuniary conditions of its creation, author’ and publishers’ strategies, relationships between authors and publishers.

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homo viator - Fondane vagabondul și Ulise în vagabondaj persuasiv (I) - Rivalitatea dintre Fondane și Voronca

Author(s): Ruxandra Cesereanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2023

Text by Ruxandra Cesereanu about the rivaltry of two Romanian Avantgarde poets, who tried to get recognition in French literature as well and each wrote a poem intitled Ulysses.

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GEORGE BACOVIA AND CHARLES BAUDELAIRE BETWEEN POETRY AND BEATITUDE

Author(s): Andrada Chișamera (Slăvuțanu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

Ch. Baudelaire is the poet that tried hallucinogenic experiences. He wished to achieve the absolute in poetry creation, the consumption of opium and hashish had helped him to give birth to Poetry, that rere flower of the Haven. Consumption of narcotics overcomes all limits, George Bacovia also uses hallucinogenic effects of alcohol to escape freem sick universe in which he feels more and more solitary. In this material I wish to analyze the works of the two poets to identify in their lyrics the hallucinogenic elements that create artificial images. I will highlight that hidden side that is also reflected in the work of the two writers: the consumption of narcotics to sink into the mistery of poetry and overcome the boundaries of a common man.

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THE FANTASTIC. A POETICS OF MYSTERY

Author(s): Diana Teodora Cozma / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

Many historians and literature theorists from different centuries, observe especially the fact that the phrase fantastic literature designate those very literature works which are very various that cannot be justified. The attempts of defining of this very literature are many and they are born from the desire to re-establish of a new pre-existing order, and through a synchronic and diachronic approach is trying to define that concept and the contents that it had throughout the history.

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The Memory of War and the Historical Memory of Vichy Work Camps in Tunisia through Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt

Author(s): Habiba Boumlik / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The effects of Vichy anti-Jewish laws in North Africa were particularly devastating in Tunisia. Approximately 5,000 Tunisian Jewish men were detained and sent to forced labor camps run by the Germans and the Italians. The present paper analyzes Albert Memmi’s descriptions in his 1953 novel, The Pillar of Salt, of arbitrary arrests, spoliations, raids, ransoming, and requisitions for forced labor in work camps. A Tunisian Jew, Memmi included his recollections of a labor camp in the final part of his novel. The book gives a precise idea of the climate established by the Nazis and its disastrous consequences for Tunisian Jews. Internees were given unnecessary chores, humiliated, and provoked to retributive behavior. Hygiene, food, and living conditions were deplorable.

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Pamięć o wojnie i historyczna pamięć o obozach pracy w Tunezji pod rządami Vichy na podstawie Słupa soli Alberta Memmiego

Author(s): Habiba Boumlik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2020

Skutki antyżydowskiego ustawodawstwa wprowadzonego przez rząd Vichy w Afryce Północnej okazały się wyjątkowo katastrofalne w Tunezji. Około 5 tys. tunezyjskich Żydów zostało aresztowanych i deportowanych do niemieckich i włoskich obozów pracy. Artykuł jest poświęcony analizie opisów przypadkowych aresztowań, grabieży, łapanek, żądań okupu i przymusowej pracy w obozach, które Albert Memmi zawarł w powieści Słup soli z 1953 roku. Memmi, tunezyjski Żyd, swoje wspomnienia z pobytu w obozie pracy umieścił w końcowej części książki. Doskonale oddaje ona klimat społeczny wytworzony przez nazistów i jego fatalne skutki dla tunezyjskich Żydów. Więźniowie wykonywali zbędne prace, poniżano ich i prowokowano do zachowań sprzecznych z prawem. Higiena, wyżywienie i warunki życia były na bardzo niskim poziomie.

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MASTERY AND TRUTH IN JEAN GIRAUDOUX’S THEATRE

Author(s): Anuța Batin / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2019

In this paper I have tried out a short presentation of the life and activity of the French writer Jean Giraudoux, with clear alussion to his playwrights, to his vision about theatre:Siegfried,Electra, Song of Songs, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Sodom and Gomorrah etc. In Giraudoux's vision, the show is the only form of moral and artistic education of a nation. It is the only adult and elderly evening school, the only means by which the public, whether humble or skilled, can come into contact with the highest conflicts ... there are peoples who dream; for those who do not dream there remains the theatre. The theatre has the virtue of catharsis, which operates on the sensitivity of the viewer who is led to the beginning. Giraudoux's theater is a theatre of ideas which is especially interested in reporting man to his existence and less, as we have noticed, in presenting intrigues and psychological conflicts.

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THE VISION OF THE HISTORY IN THE EUGENE IONESCO’ LITERARY CREATION

Author(s): Magdalena Indrieş / Language(s): French Issue: 19/2019

Eugene Ionesco’s conception about history was determined by the historical events that he lived in Romania and in France, but also by his artist statute. Eugene Ionesco’ vision of the history is derived from his conception of the world and of the human condition. He was against the history which was « mystification and imposture ». In Ionesco’s opinion, all the revolutions failed, the real revolutionaries are the scientists and the artists, because they are preoccupied by existential condition of the man.

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Écrire et cartographier le nomadisme au XIXe siècle. L’exemple des Kalmouks

Author(s): Virginie Tellier / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

This article proposes to reflect on the writing of nomadism by comparing three accounts of journeys made between 1797 and 1859 in Kalmyk territory: Voyage à Astrakan et au Caucase (Jan Potocki, 1797), Les Steppes de la mer Caspienne, le Caucase, la Crimée et la Russie méridionale (Xavier and Adèle Hommaire de Hell, 1843-1845), Voyage au littoral de la mer Caspienne and The Volga (Moynet, 1860, 1867). The article first evocates the question of the place from which the visual, auditory and intellectual experience of the traveller is established; it then questions the distance, physical and symbolic, which separates the travellers from those they meet on the way; it finally attempts to relate the movement of the nomad, on the one hand, to the movement of the traveller, on the other.

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