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AbstractThis paper examines a domain whose narrativity is largely ignored, that of the paratext (titles, illustrations, cover, footnotes, etc.). A distinction is proposed between those elements that frequently have a narrative function, and those where narrativity is more exceptional, and thus more noteworthy. Three types of relationship between paratext and text are examined: forecast, counterpoint and saturation.
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Guyotat's language is said to be iconoclastic, or more acutely logoclastic since it does not merely ruin the “ images ” it produces in its strong denying of all mimesis, but also sacrifices itself as language for which it substitutes an infra or shattered language, which the idiolect it is reinventing itself in embodies. Far from ruining human language, this matricidal and generative discourse found in Progénitures, as well as in all of Guyotat's works, could well be the opportunity for a new history of spoken language, a history that would no longer stress the fight between linguistic identities (ethnic, social and religious dimensions of discourse), but rather rely on a renewed awareness of the mixture every language is made of. Every idiom is an “ interlanguage ” because it lies in between two states of language just as the copulation and generation organs assume their full meaning in between two bodies, as an “ inter-body ”, one might say, where same and other get mixed in a “ prostitutionnal ” world. Guyotat details this world in order to show that man and its language live only in a progeny or an endless pro-genesis rather than within a History which, it was said, has come to its end.
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