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AbstractPascal Quignard is one of the major figures of contemporary French literature. Petits Traités, his key work, can be traced back to the genre of the treatise as it used to be written in 17th century France. Several characteristics illustrate this connection : the importance of certain recurrent topics, such as language and nothingness ; the use of didactic arguments ; and the frequent recourse to axioms as a means of expression. But for Quignard, a treatise is submitted to a double process of transposition, the first one following the rules of the novel, and the second one the principles of poetry. Each transposition is both cumulative and reversible. As a result, the treatise becomes a literary space where the thinker is confronted to the instability of his own cognition. Based on the process detailed in this article, Pascal Quignard gives shape to an intellectual figure whose knowledge and grasp on reality is tainted by doubts and melancholy.
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This study offers some ideas for a better understanding of Contes, légendes et récits de Lanaudière, and situates some of the texts in the social discourse at the time of their writing (late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries). Noting that many stories in the collection do not correspond well to definitions of tales and legends, which focus mainly on the fantastic, the analysis reveals realist themes that are linked to current events and issues. The author presents them as covering current events at a time when the concept was not yet a part of the contemporary discourse. Inspired by the works of Philippe Breton and Marshall McLuhan, the author presents some of the texts by authors from the Lanaudière region as the news reports of a past era. The study questions the reception of readers at a time when the media environment of the twenty-first century did not yet exist, but when people nevertheless had similar reactions to current events.