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Projet En Cours: [Ces Deux Textes Sont Extraits De Marcher Jusqu’Au Soir.], Lydie Salvayre

French Language and Literature Papers

Je détestais depuis longtemps tous les dévots de l’art. Je les détestais pour avoir vérifié trois cent fois que le prurit culturel qui leur démangeait l’âme ne les rendait pas meilleurs que les autres, ni plus humains, ni plus dignes, ni plus justes, ni plus éclairés, ni plus intelligents, ni plus rien, que parfois même ils étaient de gros cons, de gros cons confits en connerie, de gros cons d’une connerie insolente, de gros cons émerveillés d’eux-mêmes qui paradaient aux vernissages et se pâmaient devant le dernier artiste à la mode, lorsque c’était le tour d’Armand Étienne, ils n’en avaient …

Une Conversation Avec Lydie Salvayre, Lydie Salvayre, Warren Motte

French Language and Literature Papers

WM : Tout d’abord, puisqu’il s’agit ici d’une conversation, j’aimerais vous demander ce que vous pensez du principe. Beaucoup de vos livres, surtout au début de votre carrière (je pense par exemple à La Déclaration, à La Vie commune, à La Puissance des mouches, à La Compagnie des spectres) sont monologiques. Dans La Conférence de Cintegabelle, livre strictement monologique, le conférencier prône les vertus de la conversation— et cependant il fait tout pour tuer dans l’oeuf toute possibilité de dialogue. Comment voyez-vous la chose ?

LS : Aussi loin que remontent mes souvenirs, j’ai toujours eu des difficultés à prendre …

Quatre Photos, Lydie Salvayre

French Language and Literature Papers

« Au fond je suis un sportif, le sportif au lit. » — Henri Michaux

Chambre avec vue

Lydie Salvayre – Paris – Mai 2013

Lydie Salvayre – Le Pin – Juin 2018

Lydie Salvayre, Écrivain Baroque’N’Roll, Bernard Wallet

French Language and Literature Papers

Dès sa petite enfance, Lydie Salvayre parle deux langues. À la maison, elle parle l’espagnol qui est la langue de ses parents, réfugiés politiques dans le sud de la France suite à la prise de pouvoir de Franco. À l’extérieur, elle parle le français. L’espagnol va devenir la langue du dedans, la langue de l’intime, des ripostes intérieures, la langue qui prend en charge tout ce que ne peut porter la langue du dehors, tout ce qui par elle est laissé de côté, tout ce qui est excessif, tout ce qui déborde, tout ce qui ne peut se rendre public, …

Almuerz, David Lopez

French Language and Literature Papers

Elle m’a laissé le choix. Salsa amarilla o roja, avec les albondigues. J’ai dit amarille, abuela, c’est ce que je dis à chaque fois qu’elle me pose la question. Bueno elle a répondu, le sourire dans la voix, satisfaite à l’idée de satisfaire, et puis elle a ajouté que nunca elle s’accorde de ce que moi je préfère, parce que mi hermano también il a ça qu’il aime, et puis il vient plus souvent alors parfois elle se confond. Mais c’est vrai qu’on la laisse cociner, comme elle dit, et qu’elle connaît nos préférences, sachant qu’en général on aime bien …

À Propos De Lydie Salvayre, Mahir Guven

French Language and Literature Papers

Cher Professeur Notte-- Vous noterez que je continue à buter sur votre patronyme. Allez savoir pourquoi ma mémoire n’a pas enregistré Motte. Allez comprendre le fonctionne du cerveau. Vous en savez quelque chose vous ? Moi non ? Il faudrait demander à Lydie Salvayre. Vous ne pensez pas ? La fille a exercé comme psychiatre. La tronche, la caboche, elle connaît, pendant plus de trente ans, elle a nagé dans les délires et les névroses. Et ? Donc ? De quoi je parle ? J’y viens, cher Professeur. Patience. Faisons à la Française. D’abord, les politesses.

Ouvrages De Lydie Salvayre, Warren Motte

French Language and Literature Papers

La Déclaration. Paris: Julliard, 1990. Paris: Verticales, 1997.

La Vie commune. Paris: Julliard, 1991. Paris: Verticales, 1999.

La Médaille. Paris: Seuil, 1993.

La Puissance des mouches. Paris: Seuil, 1995.

La Compagnie des spectres. Paris: Seuil, 1997.

Quelques Conseils utiles aux élèves huissiers. Paris: Verticales, 1997.

La Conférence de Cintegabelle. Paris: Seuil/Verticales, 1999.

Les Belles Âmes. Paris: Seuil, 2000.

Le Vif du vivant. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 2001.

Contre. Paris: Seuil/Verticales, 2002.

Et que les vers mangent le boeuf mort. Paris: Seuil/Verticales, 2002.

Passage à l’ennemie. Paris: Seuil, 2003. …

Éloge De La Fuite, Stéphane Bikialo

French Language and Literature Papers

[Ce texte a paru dans Lydie Salvayre, éd. Stéphane Bikialo, Classiques Garnier, 2020.]

« Si on y allait ? »

(fin de BW )

Je pars.

Toujours il dit Je pars, je me tire.

Il aime le mouvement de partir. Il se fout de l’endroit à atteindre, ce qu’il aime c’est partir, c’est déclarer qu’il part. Il dit qu’il va écrire, un jour, l’éloge de la fuite. (BW )

C’est BW qui le dit, et c’est Lydie Salvayre qui l’écrit, inaugurant avec cet ouvrage, paru en 2009, une série qu’elle décrira ainsi dans Hymne (2011) : « le temps presse …

Diamant Brut, Marie Cosnay

French Language and Literature Papers

Ce coup de fil, au petit matin. Le coup de fil porte les ingrédients d’une histoire. Au coeur de l’histoire racontée au téléphone, une enfant. D’Irun, Poitiers et Bruxelles, chacun dans sa chambre ou cuisine du petit déjeuner, nous sommes projetés, par ondes électromagnétiques, au coeur de l’histoire dans laquelle il y a, comme protagoniste principale, une enfant, 15 ans, venue de Conakry. D’Irun on nous dit, au téléphone : un ange, une perle, un diamant, on ajoute : brut. Un diamant brut.

Le diamant brut avait quitté son pays pour en remonter d’autres, territoires après territoires, territoires sans nom …

Deux Artistes, Lydie Salvayre

French Language and Literature Papers

1) Sur Alberto Giacometti : Walking Je nourrissais depuis longtemps une passion pour l’Homme qui marche de Giacometti. L’Homme qui marche, que je n’avais jamais vu que reproduit sur du papier glacé, me semblait constituer l’oeuvre au monde qui disait le plus justement et de la façon la plus poignante ce qu’il en était de notre condition humaine: notre infinie solitude et notre infinie vulnérabilité, mais, en dépit de celles-ci, notre entêtement à persévérer dans le vivre, notre entêtement à persévérer contre toute raison dans le vivre.

2) Sur Thomas Bernhard : Contre Aller dans le sens opposé, c’est ce …

[Lydie Salvayre,] Dans Le Vif Du Vivant, Warren Motte

French Language and Literature Papers

Les livres de Lydie Salvayre sont implacables, obsessionnels, insistants. Ils débordent de gens qui hurlent, qui fustigent, qui accusent, des gens qui estiment qu’il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas dans l’ordre accepté des choses, et qui ne relâcheront pas. Salvayre dit « Non ! » de manière superbement éloquente ; elle refuse d’approuver la sagesse reçue ; elle pense que tout mérite d’être interrogé. À notre époque si houleuse et incertaine, ces livres sont vivifiants, des vaccins puissants contre les foutaises outrageuses qui nous bombardent de façon quotidienne, constante. Son écriture se situe dans le vif du …

Presénces Polyvalentes: Protean Polynesian Voices In The Works Of Rai Chaze And Titaua Peu, Julia Frengs

French Language and Literature Papers

IN AN INTERVIEW conducted in May 2013, the same month in which French Polynesia was inscribed on the United Nations list of countries to be decolonized, the archipelago's best-known writer, Chantal Spitz, declared:

L'Océanie est une et multiple. Une parce qu'habitée par un méme peuple originel venue d'Asie du Sud-Est, notamment Taiwan, qui s'est installé au fil de voyages océaniques a bord de pirogues à double coque et en suivant les étoiles, sur les îles du Pacifique. Multiple par la variété des adaptations imposées à ce peuple par des environnements géographiques souvent très différents et des colonisations européennes diverses. (19) …

Theater And The Rwandan Genocide, Chantal Kalisa

French Language and Literature Papers

In 1994 Rwanda was the scene of genocide, or, more precisely in French, it was Ie theatre dugenocide (theater of genocide). Perpetrators and victims played their role while the rest of the world watched the "spectacle" live on television. Perhaps because of its spectacular aspect, the Rwandan genocide has inspired a number of artistic materials. In the last decade we have indeed witnessed the growth of literary and artistic expression in relation to the Rwandan genocide. Survivors and witnesses have told their stories in books and songs. Journalists, as well as other travelers "to the end of Rwanda," to use …

Anticipatory Testimonies: Environmental Disaster In Claudine Jacques's Fictional Prophecies, Julia L. Frengs

French Language and Literature Papers

In Caledonian author Claudine Jacques's 2002 novel L'Âge du perroquet-banane, Parabole païenne, a tribal elder warns a man "from elsewhere": "in our country, if you remove a taboo bone, you disrupt the sea, if you touch it without respect you invite a cyclone, if you toss the bones of our elders you provoke a...tidal wave" (54). Although this work is set in a futuristic world after an ambiguous "Great Disaster" on an unnamed Oceanic island, the author manages to allegorically recount the history of the environmental atrocities attributed to the earth's human occupants that have transformed the present reality of …

Tracing The Origins Of Success: Implications For Successful Aging, Nora M. Peterson, Peter Martin

French Language and Literature Papers

Purpose of the Study: This paper addresses the debate about the use of the term “successful aging” from a humanistic, rather than behavioral, perspective. It attempts to uncover what success, a term frequently associated with aging, is: how can it be defined and when did it first come into use? In this paper, we draw from a number of humanistic perspectives, including the historical and linguistic, in order to explore the evolution of the term “success.” We believe that words and concepts have deep implications for how concepts (such as aging) are culturally and historically perceived.

Design and Methods: We …

Writing The Convent In New France: The Colonialist Rhetoric Of Canadian Nuns, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Most writing by women that has survived from before the fall of New France—perhaps most writing by women during that period—was done by nuns in the seven communities founded before 1763: the Ursulines, the Hôtel-Dieu, and the Hôpital-Général in Québec; the Ursulines of Trois-Rivières; the Hôtel-Dieu and two uncloistered institutes, the Congrégation de Notre-Dame and Sisters of Charity of Marguerite d’Youville in Montreal.

While the nuns wrote above all to promote the spiritual vitality of their communities, they also provide a unique female perspective on the colonial milieu. Marie Guyart, Catherine Simon de Longpré, and Marguerite Bourgeoys are the best …

Aretino's Legacy: L'Ecole Des Filles And The Pornographic Continuum In Early Modern France, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

The problematic reaction that pornography evokes as both a literary and cultural construct stems partially from the fact that it is as antimodern as it is modern. This paradox is implicitly outlined in Lynn Hunt's definition of pornography. The ironically traditional, if not presumably timeless, quality of pornography she describes as "the explicit depiction of sexual organs and sexual practices with the aim of arousing sexual feelings"; at the same time, however, the "modernity" of pornography, especially in the early modern period, stems from the fact that such works, "us[ed] the shock of sex to criticize religious and political authorities' …

From The Cloister To The World: Mainstreaming Early Modern French Convent Writing: An État Présent, Thomas M. Carr

French Language and Literature Papers

The article is an overview on recent scholarship dealing Ancien Régime convent writing. Although nuns constitute a large percentage of the seventeenth-century women authors whose writings were published, except for a few figures like Marie de l’Incarnation Guyart or the Port-Royal nuns, their texts have been largely ignored, even by scholars engaged in the retrieval of women’s writing during the period. This is in contrast to Italian and Hispanic studies, where the contribution of convent writing is acknowledged as central. The état present discusses reasons for this neglect, the methodological challenges and perspectives for further research, along with a 120 …

A Checklist Of Published Writings In French By Early Modern Nuns, Thomas M. Carr

French Language and Literature Papers

The great amount of writing by early modern nuns that was published during the Ancien Régime is underexploited because no master list of it exists. For example, at least ninety books by some sixty different nuns were published between 1600 and 1700, and many more that have been published since. The Checklist of over 300 items is an effort to fill this gap. Besides books authored by nuns, it includes many biographies that contain samples of their writings. Short occasional texts, such as death notices, lettres circulaires, and legal factums have generally been excluded, however. Unless another location is noted, …

Introduction To Emf 11: The Cloister And The World, Thomas M. Carr

French Language and Literature Papers

Early modern nuns seem poles apart from women in the West today. They strove after an ideal of perfection that stressed humility, intellectual simplicity, asceticism, and submission that is the opposite of the autonomy and empowerment the contemporary feminist movement proposes for women. Even during the Ancien Régime nuns were isolated from their own society by the Council of Trent's revitalization of clausura. To modern eyes, the cloistered nun epitomizes a hierarchical church that cut a woman off from her own society, leaving her little initiative or voice. However, a burgeoning number of books and articles published in the …

Fact Or Fable? Female Gender And Sexuality In Villedieu’S Histoires Allégoriques, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

In many respects, the Fables ou Histoires allégoriques of Marie-Catherine Desjardins, more commonly known as Madame de Villedieu (1640?–1683), can be read in terms of the sexual politics of neo-classical France. Unlike many of her other works, the Fables serve in part as a defense and illustration of female presence and sexuality. A moral that emerges in the nine tales she classifies as “fables” is that the female gender proves as authoritative and as intelligent as the male and that female sexuality should be considered as natural and as legitimate as its masculine equivalent. In her dedication to Louis XIV, …

Theatre And The Rwandan Genocide, Marie-Chantal Kalisa

French Language and Literature Papers

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of genocide, or more precisely in French, “le théâtre du génocide” (theatre of genocide). Perpetrators and victims played their role while the rest of the world watched the “spectacle” live on television. Perhaps because of its spectacular aspect, the Rwandan genocide has inspired a number of artistic materials. In the last decade, we have indeed witnessed the growth of literary and artistic expression in relation to the Rwandan genocide. Survivors and witnesses have told their stories in books and songs. Journalists, as well as other travelers “to the end of Rwanda,” to use Véronique …

Literary Symbolism, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

As a school of literature, Symbolism refers to three phases of a vital part of the development of literary modernism: first to an artistic movement in France and Belgium during the last decade and a half of the nineteenth century; then, retrospectively and most importantly, to its immediate sources in French poetry beginning in the 1850s; and finally to the influence that both of these had on European and American literatures throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The designation then, had its original and official application to the second and, it must be owned, from a literary point …

«L’Arbre» De Gabrielle Roy: Une Hirondelle D’Hiver Dans Un Chêne Vert De Floride, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

On connaît bien les voyages de Gabrielle Roy au Manitoba pour rendre visite à sa famille et ses séjours à Petite-Rivière-Saint-François dans Charlevoix. C’est seulement depuis la publication de ses lettres à son mari qu’on commence à mieux apprécier ses séjours en Floride dans les années cinquante et soixante. Au moins une nouvelle, écrite semble-t-il en Floride en 1967-1968, s’inspire de ces voyages, mais puisqu’elle n’a été reprise dans aucun recueil, elle reste mal connue. Elle n’a généralement été étudiée que dans le cadre du symbolisme du monde naturel chez Roy (Gagné, 1973; Harvey, 1993). Pourtant, François Ricard a attribué …

Review Of Jean-Nicolas Illouz, Le Symbolisme, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

As emphases in literary studies have shifted away from structuralist, semiotic, and other modes of reading informed by theory toward historically-oriented esthetic and cultural analysis, we have needed a new examination of Symbolism that would account for its complexities both as a literary and artistic movement and as a “compound moment” in literary and cultural history. Jean-Nicolas Illouz has provided the foundation for such a reexamination. His study is, to my knowledge, the most complete and nuanced overview of the movement that we have, bringing together in a historically informed and carefully researched reading of Symbolism as both the point …

Globalisation And 'La Pièce De Cent Sous': Balzac's Nation-State, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Seen from an Olympian perspective, globalisation in today's world denotes the use of a standard model to establish relationships economic, cultural, and moral—across peoples in the absence of national boundaries capable of restraining the formation of such ties. From the national, or local, perspective, it is the invasive imposition of foreign influence in the form of a single model. From either vantage point, change and adaptation are the order of the day. Take-overs of one culture by another, whether hostile or friendly, are not historical novelties; what seems to distinguish globalisation is its planetary scope and impetus to take over …

Théâtre Et Théâtralité Chez Flaubert, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

De tous les écrits dits secondaires de Gustave Flaubert, c'est incontestablement son théâtre qui a été le dernier à susciter un examen critique sérieux. Dans l'immense bibliographie consacrée au romancier et à son oeuvre, les études sur le théâtre ont, jusqu'à très récemment, occupé peu de place : quelques pages, lues ça et là dans les analyses des romans ou dans les biographies, un nombre infime d'articles consacrés aux caractéristiques théâtrales de l'oeuvre romanesque, la publication très irrégulière d'inédits de projets de théâtre ou de notes de lecture théâtrale dont les manuscrits font surface de temps en temps dans le …

Visual Culture: The Later Mallarmé And Japonisme, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Like his painter-contemporaries, Mallarmé’s attention to japonisme was to a visual phenomenon. Like them, he had a strong visual sense, and one could argue that even the early poems that tried to apprehend nothingness did so as if the problem were a visual one even if the results were more the ideas of things seen, rather than the creation of images. His visual orientation did change dramatically, however, by the time of La Dernière Mode in 1874, readying him for the acculturation to be provided first by Manet, and then by others, notably Whistler. The esthetics of japonisme is a …

Review Of Mannerism And Baroque In Seventeenth-Century French Poetry: The Example Of Tristan L’Hermite, By James C. Shepard, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

Interest in Tristan L’Hermite has not only been sustained, but has grown considerably since 1955, when Amédée Carriat published Tristan ou L’Eloge d’un poète and his Bibliographie des oeuvres de Tristan L’Hermite. Carriat’s work on the Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, as well as the scholarship of Claude Abraham, Catherine Grisé, and Jean-Pierre Chauveau among others, has laid the groundwork for a number of new inquiries into Tristan’s oeuvre. Colloquia on Tristan have been organized in France and the U.S. in recent years, and the Tristan “revival” reached an apex of sorts in 1999 with Champion’s publication of his Oeuvres complètes …

Les Abbesses Et La Parole Au Dix-Septième Siècle: Les Discours Monastiques À La Lumière Des Interdictions Pauliniennes, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

One tends to take for granted that in women’s monasteries the only voices raised were those of its masculine directors and preachers. However, while sermons by priests were generally reserved for Sundays and feast days, the abbesses addressed their communities several times a week or even daily. Although the Pauline prohibitions restricted women from speaking on religious topics in public or to mixed groups, within the walls of the convent that was assimilated to the private domain of a household, abbesses exhorted, instructed and rebuked their nuns at chapter meetings or during recreation sessions. Many such talks might have been …