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AbstractPublished during Argentina's last military dictatorship, Ricardo Piglia's novel Artificial Respiration places the reader at the threshold of loss as well as of a possible “ salvation ” which could be reached through the practice of a certain literary quality in reading. Such “ salvation ” is not to be understood literally as a resurrection, restitution or compensation, but as a certain treatment allowing the transformation of loss. In Piglia's novel, literature emerges as the medium where loss, inscribed in Modern thought, can be treated and transformed. Such transformation of loss takes place in the interaction between the figure of a disappeared character, who, becoming emblematic of a series of losses – of sense, body, history, memory, native country, and so on – is able to guide the readings of the narrator and of the other characters.
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AbstractThis study applies the Bakhtinian concept of cbronotope (unit of time and space) to a homogeneous publishing corpus, the "Roman Plus" collection of novels for teenagers published by La courte échelle. Significantly, most of the stories that move away from the dominant chronotope (i.e., generally speaking, the school year in an urban environment) share certain features: greater importance given to the existential aspect of time and a more complex narrative and enunciation.
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AbstractThis article analyzes the production of autobiographical effects in Louise Warren's work of poetic prose, Le Lièvre de mars. The analysis takes place on four levels : the paratext, the generic nature of poetry, intratextuality and a " knowledge " of the author's life. However, these effects are constantly shifting to fiction as imagination and dreaming contaminate the construction of narrative coherence and present a dynamic subjectivity that accepts alterity and deconstructs the vision of the unitary subject. In presenting a woman's subjectivity, which makes no separation between reality and fiction, this book proposes a woman's reality based on " virtual " reality rather than on conformity with referential truth.
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The titles of several of François Blais' novels include the name of a female character—Iphigénie, Anne-Sophie, Valérie, Sam, Mélanie—giving the impression that these characters are central to the story. However, it seems that in the books in which the first two above-named characters, Iphigénie en Haute-Ville and Vie d'Anne-Sophie Bonenfant appear, it is male characters, narrators or points-of-view that control the story. Shifting the gaze onto them reveals characters of an ambiguous nature. This article argues that the tendency of critics to turn a blind eye to this particularity demonstrates the hegemony of a form of masculinity that, although appearing normal, is no less problematic.
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The texts on the novel in France in the 18th century are non many and they tend to repeat themselves. Their observations on fiction are rather poor and trite. But, strikingly, severa authors were lead to apprehend fiction because they were speaking about obsolete forms of the novel or some kinds of disputable fictions as fairy tales: Chapelain, Huet, Galland, Marivaux, Perrault, Addison and Prévost. So we have seen several ways to look at fiction.