La mémoire au travail dans Lieux de Georges Perec
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2022
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
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Cet article se propose de lire Lieux, projet inachevé de Georges Perec publié posthumément en 2022, en tant qu’œuvre charnière dans l’évolution des réflexions de Perec sur la mémoire, considérée comme travail et comme appel au partage. Dans un premier moment, l’étude esquissera brièvement une histoire du projet pour saisir les enjeux de sa rédaction, comprendre les possibles raisons de son abandon final et répondre aux questions de légitimé au sujet de sa récente publication posthume en double version, papier et électronique. Ensuite, dans le sillon de l’étude de Philippe Lejeune La mémoire et l’oblique, l’article proposera une lecture de Lieux focalisée sur les approches de la mémoire à l’œuvre dans ce texte. L’approche expérimentale de Perec vis-à-vis de la matière autobiographique, se heurtant aux questionnements, aux tâtonnements, aux incertitudes de l’auteur, se reflète dans une écriture hybride, errante, préfigurant les notions de multiple, de potentiel, d’appel aux autres qui caractériseront les projets successifs de l’auteur.
This article aims to offer an interpretation of Lieux, Georges Perec’s unfinished project published posthumously in 2022, as a pivotal work in the development of his approach to memory, considered both as work and as a call for sharing. At the beginning, a brief history of the project in question will be outlined in order to identify the challenges involved in writing it, understand possible reasons for its abandonment, and answer questions concerning legitimacy of its recent publication in two formats, both as a traditional book and a hypertext. Then, building upon Philippe Lejeune’s work La mémoire et l’oblique, the article will propose an interpretation of Lieux focused on the approaches to memory at work within this text. Perec’s experimental approach towards autobiography, faced with interrogation, trial-and-error exploration, and uncertainties of the author, is reflected in a hybrid, wandering writing, foreshadowing key notions developed in the author’s later projects, such as the multiple, the potential, the call for sharing.
This article aims to offer an interpretation of Lieux, Georges Perec’s unfinished project published posthumously in 2022, as a pivotal work in the development of his approach to memory, considered both as work and as a call for sharing. At the beginning, a brief history of the project in question will be outlined in order to identify the challenges involved in writing it, understand possible reasons for its abandonment, and answer questions concerning legitimacy of its recent publication in two formats, both as a traditional book and a hypertext. Then, building upon Philippe Lejeune’s work La mémoire et l’oblique, the article will propose an interpretation of Lieux focused on the approaches to memory at work within this text. Perec’s experimental approach towards autobiography, faced with interrogation, trial-and-error exploration, and uncertainties of the author, is reflected in a hybrid, wandering writing, foreshadowing key notions developed in the author’s later projects, such as the multiple, the potential, the call for sharing.
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Georges Perec, Lieux, mémoire, autobiographie, œuvres inachevées, publication posthume, hypertexte, memory, autobiography, unfinished works, posthumous publication, hypertext
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2022, nº 12, s. 112-124