Theme

"Writing implies first of all to revive something which is absent" [1] : voices of disappeared people, texts of exile and loss, literatures of mourning and forgetfulness seem to be significant in our time.

Both the absence of the author, according to Roland Barthes and the absence within the work of art or literature, claimed by Antonin Artaud and Maurice Blanchot rely on the idea that writing is both producing and burying meaning. Descriptions, palimpsests, abysmal techniques, archives and traces conglomerate to make the unspeakable absence legible and audible.

1 .Christophe Meurée, Acta Fabula, Automne 2004 (Volume 5, numéro 4)

 

Theme of the next issue :  Influence, resistance and transfer in French American cultural relationship -- see Submissions

 

 

Texts

Forward (in French)

Ruth Amar, "Olivier Rolin, une poétique de l'absence narrative"

Nancy Arenberg, "Searching for the missing warrior : resurrecting the mother in Assia Djebars' La femme sans sépulture"

Julie Beaulieu, "sans titre"

Olivier Bercault,"L'absence interminable"

Chantal Colomb-Guillaume, "Pomayrols"

Patrick Erouart, "Les qualités de l'absence"

Deborah Heissler, "Absence-ton hypothèse"

Cédric Jamet, "Absent(e)

Stéphane Lavauzelle,"Manifestation de l'absence chez Claude Louis-Combet"

Daniel Leduc, "De l'autre côté des vagues"

Colette Nys-Mazure, "Que nul ne meure qui n'ait aimé"

Aude Pichon,"The dissolution of Meaning in Samuel Beckett"

Emilie Stizia, "Manet et le couple absent"

Evelyne Wilwerth, "Un infime courant d'air"

Reviews

Inge Boer, Disorienting Vision, Rereading Stereotypes in French Orientalist Texts and Images

Entretien avec Fabrice Rozié sur "Liaison transatlantique"