Quêtes littéraires, 2011, No 1: Ecrire l'absence

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    Absents et absences dans les Essais de Montaigne
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2011) Bjaï, Denis
    Except for Étienne de la Boétie, the friend for ever gone but whose presence pervades the Essais so vividly, the reader can notice the nearly total – and therefore puzzling – absence of Montaigne’s mother, Antoinette de Louppes, contrasting with the recurrent mentions to his father, Pierre Eyquem. He will also encounter strange omissions, such as Montaigne’s silence on St-Bartholomew’s Day massacre, and telling lapses, for instance on the answers given to young King Charles IX by the cannibals from Brazil. Do the Essais really “tell everything” (On vanity, III, 9), as Montaigne claims they do?
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    Absence du romanesque dans le roman hybride de Charles Nodier – Adèle
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2011) Rabsztyn, Andrzej
    This paper deals with intentional breakaway of novel elements in romantic story published in 1820. On the one hand, the book belongs to the rich tradition of epistolary, on the other, it also gives un example of how formal borders can be transgressed between novel composed of letters and novel written as intimate diary, what leads to the disappearance of typical novel elements in texts from the turn of XVII and XVIII c. This absence of fiction appears firstly in paratext (especially in the preface to the novel), where the author presents his own concept of novel, and then in letters.
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    L’absence qui devient présence : la vie et l’Idée dans Sixtine de Remy de Gourmont
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2011) Sadkowska-Fidala, Agata
    Sixtine by Remy de Gourmont marks the refusal of nature and tangible reality and the choice of imagination to the detriment of reality. Its principal character, Hubert d’Entragues is a faithful disciple of idealism of symbolism. Since he chooses to think rather that to live, it is not surprising that the plot of the novel is almost nonexistent. The plot develops around of d’Entragues’ desire to win the beautiful Sixtine, which is in itself condemned to failure since he is doing nothing to reach her and refuses to take any effort. The woman, who could have served as the principal impulse of the plot, is practically inexistent in this story (though it is a passionate story) and is replaced by the ideal woman: the story is doubled by the second story, e.g. a novel written by the character which is a transposition of his “cerebral” relation with Sixtine and a realisation of presence of the latter. Art replaces life, and life does not exist in itself. It is shaped by thought. But the chosen absence of any facts of life is fruitful: it gives birth to a novel. It is a story of a prisoner in love with the statute of the Virgin which he sees while taking a daily walk. In this novel the carnal accomplishment is not necessary in order for a true and sincere passion to develop, and the satisfaction of desire may destroy the dream and the ideal.
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    Entre l’absence et la présence de la Morte dans Bruges-la-Morte de Georges Rodenbach
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2011) Komandera, Aleksandra
    In his short novel Bruges-la-Morte Georges Rodenbach presents an inconsolable widower, Hugues Viane, who tries to immortalise his dead wife by the worship of her souvenirs and installing himself in Bruges, a “dead town”. The aim of the study is to examine how the absence changes into presence. Firstly, the Dead returns in Hugues Viane’s mind, the spouse appears in multiple portraits the widower contemplates every day and especially in the cult of her hair. Then, she reveals herself also in the history and the actual state of Bruges. Finally, the dead woman returns in her “double” – Jane Scott, a theatre dancer, who becomes for Hugues Viane his wife risen from the dead, unfortunately only for a while. Georges Rodenbach chooses absence as the main aspect of his novel, but he joins it to all kind of attempts, especially related to the fantastique, to transform it into presence.
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    Antonin Artaud ou l’absence à soi-même et l’expérience du vide
    (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2011) Rougé, Dominique
    Concerning Antonin Artaud it has been a question of some lack of work, but in the article we propose to the reading we are talking about another kind of absence. Indeed, in his correspondence and in the writings of his youth, the poet was complaining to be absent to himself. He was saying that words could not convey what he felt, that he had the impression to be a spectator of himself. Over time, he will say that he was feeling some emptiness in him. Is it to fill this emptiness that he spent his time writing on notebooks, and that he had replaced speaking by screaming? As a conclusion to this article, we spend some time thinking about the concepts of absence and emptiness, following some writings of Pierre Fédida.