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The basis of this article is The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature, which we analyze in regard to the reading policy Jean Paulhan puts forward therein while examining his comments and mode of writing. We first present the conception of the act of reading that emerges from the structure and mode of assertion of Flowers of Tarbes, then follow this with a discussion of readings by other critics of Paulhan's positions on the interpretative act, including his contemporaries (Benda, Blanchot) and other more recent critics, mainly from the American school of Paulhan specialists (Mehlman, Syrotinski, Milne). We postulate that Paulhan's rhetoric, in its emphasis on the materiality of words, reworks the terms of reading in democracies and incorporates them into his very mode of assertion despite the absence of a common rhetoric to unify meaning.
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