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| HIPPOLYTE, Jean-Louis, Fuzzy Fictions, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2006. | **HIPPOLYTE, Jean-Louis, Fuzzy Fictions, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2006.** |
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| 11: L'auteur affirme que la littérature postmoderne est caractérisée par la dénaturation et il cite à ce sujet les propos de N. Katherine Hayles :\\ | 11: L'auteur affirme que la littérature postmoderne est caractérisée par la dénaturation et il cite à ce sujet les propos de N. Katherine Hayles :\\ |
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| 48-49: « Not surprizingly, Toussaint's apathetic protagonists are often __at pains to make the world signify__, despite their cultural and scientific competence. Indeed, all the protagonists have the same sociocultural status in common: they are intellectuals, scholars, business-people, and writers, in other words, they think for a living. But their privileged position in society in general, and in the intellectual community in particular, seems inversely proportional to their ability to map out and understand their respective environments. […] Rather than ferreting out the truth, or a truth, the protagonists fulfill a subversive role, one that frustrates the reader's expectations and foils the process of identification with the characters, who at best remain vague and always (partially) out of sight.\\ | 48-49: « Not surprizingly, Toussaint's apathetic protagonists are often __at pains to make the world signify__, despite their cultural and scientific competence. Indeed, all the protagonists have the same sociocultural status in common: they are intellectuals, scholars, business-people, and writers, in other words, they think for a living. But their privileged position in society in general, and in the intellectual community in particular, seems inversely proportional to their ability to map out and understand their respective environments. […] Rather than ferreting out the truth, or a truth, the protagonists fulfill a subversive role, one that frustrates the reader's expectations and foils the process of identification with the characters, who at best remain vague and always (partially) out of sight.\\ |
| Likewise the cold, detached, and quasi-scientific observations that each of Toussaint's narrators shares with the reader are meant to stand in contrast to the human drama that fills each page of his novels, as if fiction must take the form of confessional literature to hide the fragility of the narrator behind a facade of impassivity. But these narrators [autodiégétiques, donc aussi des personnages, je le rappelle] are alienated figures, __hovering between presece and absence, unwilling or unable to physically affect the course of the narrative__. Mieke Bal reminds us that "characters resemble people. That remains a truism, so banal that we often tend to forget it... The character is not a human being, but it resembles one. It has no real psyche, personality, ideology or competence to act, but it does possess characteristics which make psychological and ideological description possible."(//Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative//, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1985, p. 80) One would think that Toussaint's refusal to psychologize in his fictions defeats the process of identification, but that is not the case. Because Toussaint's protagonists enjoy a wide range of emotions and feelings, they still allow readers the luxury of partial identification. In fact, these protagonists may seem quite "realistic" to a contemporary readership, as their feeling of estrangement from the world and from themselvs comes across as an earnest rendition of postmodern anxiety, while their overriding sense of dismay and distress brings to mind a number of contemporary worries. Among these, "man" only exists as a social being. What's more, knowledge proves to be at best limited, at worst ineffectual, and most if not all instances of cross-cultural and multilingual encounters lead to frustrating and disappointing results ». | Likewise the cold, detached, and quasi-scientific observations that each of Toussaint's narrators shares with the reader are meant to stand in contrast to the human drama that fills each page of his novels, as if fiction must take the form of confessional literature to hide the fragility of the narrator behind a facade of impassivity. But these narrators [autodiégétiques, donc aussi des personnages] are alienated figures, __hovering between presence and absence, unwilling or unable to physically affect the course of the narrative__. Mieke Bal reminds us that "characters resemble people. That remains a truism, so banal that we often tend to forget it... The character is not a human being, but it resembles one. It has no real psyche, personality, ideology or competence to act, but it does possess characteristics which make psychological and ideological description possible."(//Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative//, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1985, p. 80) One would think that Toussaint's refusal to psychologize in his fictions defeats the process of identification, but that is not the case. Because Toussaint's protagonists enjoy a wide range of emotions and feelings, they still allow readers the luxury of partial identification. In fact, these protagonists may seem quite "realistic" to a contemporary readership, as their feeling of estrangement from the world and from themselvs comes across as an earnest rendition of postmodern anxiety, while their overriding sense of dismay and distress brings to mind a number of contemporary worries. Among these, "man" only exists as a social being. What's more, knowledge proves to be at best limited, at worst ineffectual, and most if not all instances of cross-cultural and multilingual encounters lead to frustrating and disappointing results ». |
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| 50: « Each individual is hopelessly alone in Tousaint, a solitary figure lost among peers, for whom knowing the other proves to be as frustrating as knowing the self. » | 50: « Each individual is hopelessly alone in Tousaint, a solitary figure lost among peers, for whom knowing the other proves to be as frustrating as knowing the self. » |
