Paroles disloquées
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- 作者：R.-L. Etienne Barnett (1) (2)
- 关键词：Sylvie Germain ; Jean Rouaud ; Gérard Macé ; Pierre Michon ; Pierre Bergounioux ; Généalogie ; Spectres ; Fant?mes ; Auto ; invention ; Poétique de la perte ; Sylvie Germain ; Jean Rouaud ; Gérard Macé ; Pierre Michon ; Pierre Bergounioux ; Ancestry ; Specters ; Phantoms ; Self ; actualization ; Poetics of loss
- 刊名：Neohelicon
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：December 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：40
- 期：2
- 页码：509-520
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- 作者单位：R.-L. Etienne Barnett (1) (2)
1. Office of the University Provost, Dean of Faculty and Frederick A. Treuhaft Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75 rue de Rivoli, 75005, Paris, France - ISSN：1588-2810
文摘
Sociologists and historians of genealogical filiations invoke modernity as the dissolution of traditional communities that formerly, albeit oft tacitly, bound descendants to ancestors. So as to invent oneself spontaneously and without restraint, the modern figure breaks with the strictures of the past, forging a path toward liberation. This newly-minted “emancipation” gives way to a sense of discomfortable culpability among contemporary “scribes.” In quest of remedy, they fashion a space, at once disturbing yet inviting to the ghosts and spectres of primogenitors, a space that both supports and distorts the words of heir(s). In such an optic, Sylvie Germain (1954) and Jean Rouaud (1952), Gérard Macé (1946), Pierre Michon (1945) and Pierre Bergounioux (1949) are powerfully haunted writers. As beneficiaries/successors, their gestures recall past lives and their words replicate their forebearers’ inflections and manner of verbal discourse. They are, as such, dispossessed of a familial past that represents little but ruin and grief, yet possessed by those absent beings who intrude obsessively on their consciousness and speech. They are heirs torn apart by a melancholy that extends to the grave of their “predecessors.” Contemporary literature vies with this spectral theme to analyze the ambivalence occasioned by such haunting refrains: artistic victims, orphans and parricidal vestiges of a family past, significantly impacted by the unconscious and linguistic upheavals that accompany such compelling loss.