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Pierre Michon

The Afterlife of Names
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
248 Seiten
Englisch
Peter Langerschienen am15.11.2007
Pierre Michon is one of France's most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules, Michon's work has never ceased to evade generic classifications. His work ingests books, lives and thought and probes their complex interrelationship and those moments of convergence that transform an ordinary name into that of an 'Author' or of an 'Artist'. The contents of Michon's work are well documented: they are drawn from canonical novels, chronicles, archives and the biographies of artists' lives and are worked into cross-generic forms that revive names and make us rethink the uncertainty of literature. Less has been written of his engagement with avant-garde thought. The legacy of French avant-garde thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the work of Roland Barthes, informs Michon's work. Barthes's notions of the referent, of intertextuality and of authorship, for example, are transposed, reconfigured and sometimes contested within Michon's work. In this way, Barthes's name, the afterlife of his thought, remains encrypted within Michon's prose. This book situates and reads Michon's texts through the complex inscription and transformation of names drawn from the Creuse, literature, art and avant-garde thought. And it is within this matrix that Michon puts in play his own name and its uncertain relation to literature.mehr

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KlappentextPierre Michon is one of France's most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules, Michon's work has never ceased to evade generic classifications. His work ingests books, lives and thought and probes their complex interrelationship and those moments of convergence that transform an ordinary name into that of an 'Author' or of an 'Artist'. The contents of Michon's work are well documented: they are drawn from canonical novels, chronicles, archives and the biographies of artists' lives and are worked into cross-generic forms that revive names and make us rethink the uncertainty of literature. Less has been written of his engagement with avant-garde thought. The legacy of French avant-garde thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the work of Roland Barthes, informs Michon's work. Barthes's notions of the referent, of intertextuality and of authorship, for example, are transposed, reconfigured and sometimes contested within Michon's work. In this way, Barthes's name, the afterlife of his thought, remains encrypted within Michon's prose. This book situates and reads Michon's texts through the complex inscription and transformation of names drawn from the Creuse, literature, art and avant-garde thought. And it is within this matrix that Michon puts in play his own name and its uncertain relation to literature.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-03910-744-5
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2007
Erscheinungsdatum15.11.2007
ReiheModern French Identities
Reihen-Nr.53
Seiten248 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht360 g
Artikel-Nr.16395095

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: The Creuse, the Writer and the Avant-Garde: Writer and uvre - Legacies of the Avant-Garde - Writing, Names and the Referent: Barthes, Foucault and the Referent - Inscribing the Name - Transforming the Name - Frames, Voices and Signatures: Framing the Subject - 'Qui parle ?' - Signatures and Genealogies.mehr
Kritik
«Crowley's study is most compelling when examining Michon's frequent loans from other writers and his reworking of their texts; these are not only well documented but contribute substantially to Crowley's contention that Michon's invocation of great writers and artists is also an interrogation of his own relationship with literature and of the possibility for a transformation of his own name into that of an Author.» (Nadia Sajadi-Rosen, French Studies)mehr