Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.6392
Côme Martin
Un livre etant par definition une forme fermee et delimitee, on peut comprendre que la majorite des œuvres litteraires preferent presenter au lecteur des recits lineaires, qui debutent a la premiere page et finissent a la derniere. Pourtant, si cette forme est la plus conventionnelle, de nombreux auteurs, au premier rang desquels James Joyce avec Finnegans Wake, ont souhaite remettre en question la teleologie traditionnelle de la narration en proposant des recits cycliques, sans veritable debut ni fin structurelle. Cette analyse des recits cycliques dans la litterature anglophone s’effectue en trois temps, trois facons d’aller a l’encontre des attentes narratives du lecteur et d’opposer a la cloture la relecture. Nous examinons d’abord les recits qui proposent des cycles thematiques, dans lesquels, si la linearite est bien presente, des echos stylistiques lient la fin et le debut du texte. Nous envisageons ensuite le cas de cycles narratifs, dans lesquels le recit ne finit jamais, la derniere page renvoyant a la premiere, avant de terminer par un apercu des recits cherchant a atteindre le cycle comme forme ideale realisee, tentant de depasser la forme fermee du codex et ses limitations lineaires.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.5875
A. Dechêne
This essay examines the ways in which metaphysical detective stories subvert one of detective fiction’s most emblematic features: the investigation’s resolution and the subsequent narrative closure. In the “The Man of the Crowd” (1840), the father of the genre, Edgar Allan Poe, already introduced mysteries that “[did] not permit [themselves] to be read.” Such texts enact quests for knowledge that cannot reach any kind of intellectual or emotional closure and are, instead, rewarded with more unfathomable questions. The sublime appears as a relevant concept to describe the “gaps” left open in the cognitive process of looking for answers, which will hopelessly remain beyond the detective’s — and the reader’s — reach. Including close readings of Henry James’s “The Figure in the Carpet” (1896) and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (1951), this essay proceeds to show that the “metaphysical” character of these texts lies predominantly in their lack of faith in language as a reliable tool to convey the multiple and shifting identities of the unsuccessful sleuth confronted with the meaninglessness of his investigation.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4000/SILLAGESCRITIQUES.6053
Richard Hardack
In this essay, I try to explicate the recent prominence of texts and films that feature protagonists whose memories have been erased, and particularly who don’t remember their own histories, and especially the paradoxical fact that they have died. These often traumatized figures—who need a designation, and whom we might call the nescient dead (“ND”)—are not zombies; they simply don’t realize that they are dead or exist in a repetitive flux between what Lacan termed the two deaths. Many of these narratives update a Modernist sense of belatedness, reflecting our anxiety that something has already ended, but we haven’t acknowledged it yet.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.6272
R. Williams
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Pub Date : 2003-12-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.4133
F. McMahon
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Pub Date : 2003-12-01DOI: 10.4000/sillagescritiques.4147
M. Byron
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