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“Please show me / Where the language will go down”, the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever anxiously asked. Questions surrounding the potential disappearance of Yiddish resonate far and wide, in literary works, personal testimonies, social dynamics, and psychoanalytical inquiries in a range of other languages. The studies gathered in this volume all point at the resulting linguistic confusion as a symptom of historical trauma, singularly combining intimate resonances and collective experiences. They also argue for the necessity to sketch out new ways of thinking about interactions among languages as an essential moment of reckoning with historical tragedies and a productive step towards a more nuanced understanding of issues of multi-culturalism and plurilingualism as an essential feature of our times.
“Please show me / Where the language will go down”, the Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever anxiously asked. Questions surrounding the potential disappearance of Yiddish resonate far and wide, in literary works, personal testimonies, social dynamics, and psychoanalytical inquiries in a range of other languages. The studies gathered in this volume all point at the resulting linguistic confusion as a symptom of historical trauma, singularly combining intimate resonances and collective experiences. They also argue for the necessity to sketch out new ways of thinking about interactions among languages as an essential moment of reckoning with historical tragedies and a productive step towards a more nuanced understanding of issues of multi-culturalism and plurilingualism as an essential feature of our times.
Since his debut with the short story “La Cale” in 2014, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's texts have enjoyed increasing success. Terre ceinte in 2015, Silence du chœur in 2017 and De purs hommes in 2018 have all won major literary prizes. Finally, in 2021, with La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes, the jury for the Prix Goncourt opted for a novel that offers a subtle, detailed and lucid literary metareflection on the history of African literature and the Parisian literary milieu. This volume seeks to shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform politics into literature, but also to situate his work in the current literary context.
Since his debut with the short story “La Cale” in 2014, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's texts have enjoyed increasing success. Terre ceinte in 2015, Silence du chœur in 2017 and De purs hommes in 2018 have all won major literary prizes. Finally, in 2021, with La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes, the jury for the Prix Goncourt opted for a novel that offers a subtle, detailed and lucid literary metareflection on the history of African literature and the Parisian literary milieu. This volume seeks to shed light on the narrative modalities that allow the author to transform politics into literature, but also to situate his work in the current literary context.
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Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui will be published as journal as of 2016. All back volumes are still available in print.
La revue bilingue Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui a su se faire reconnaître comme une des revues internationales de pointe dans le domaine très dynamique des études beckettiennes. L’un des principes directeurs de cette revue est son ouverture à la diversité des champs d’étude, des perspectives théoriques et des approches stylistiques des chercheurs travaillant sur Beckett. Bilingue depuis sa fondation, la revue cherche à encourager le dialogue entre les langues, les cultures et les disciplines différentes. La revue accueille des propositions en anglais et en français provenant de tous les coins du monde, pourvu que celles-ci, en s’inscrivant dans la liste déjà longue des études sur Beckett, contribuent à apporter une compréhension nouvelle de cette œuvre, tout en répondant aux critères requis de lisibilité et de sérieux scientifique. Les propositions sont soumises au contrôle évaluatif par les pairs.
A partir de 2016, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui paraître comme une revue. Les livres parus resteront disponibles sous version imprimée.
Since Romanticism, literature has embraced the myriad forms of powerlessness inherent in the complexity of the modern world. This book examines the reasons and methods that have transformed powerlessness into a literary object, from Balzac to Huysmans, from Proust to Queneau, from Malraux to Michaux, via Tinan, Amiel and Beckett to Chaillou, Senges, and the writers of post-mémoire and extrême contemporain. In particular, it shows how French literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century has been built on the enunciation of its own limits and those of man in the face of reality and history. It constitutes an invitation to reconsider contemporary discourses on the decline of the literary and to rethink the fictionalisation of powerlessness in terms of revival.