Event
by Philippe Sollers
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A superbly translated coupling of Sollers's Drame (1965) and Barthes's contemporary commentary. In this early piece, Sollers, subsequently a bestselling author because of his smug Don Juan persona, discreetly keeps watch over his fictionalizing self as it moves from nonverbal impressions to verbalized thoughts. He wants to escape the limitations imposed by language ("a trap that works . . . when I think I am the most free"). Inevitably failing, he delivers an open narrative in which "I," show more "he," and "you" interact by association. Barthes's approving essay, containing Sollers's footnotes, translates this doomed narrative quest into critical discourse, thereby assuring readers that they have indeed understood Sollers. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Comparative Literature Dept., SUNY at Binghamton. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Library Journal show lessTags
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Gallimard , L'imaginaire (227)
叢書・エクリチュールの冒険 (9)
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- Canonical title
- Event
- Original title
- Drame
- Original publication date
- 1990-02-22 (1e édition originale française, L'imaginaire, Gallimard) (1e édition originale française, L'imaginaire, Gallimard)
- Original language*
- Français
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 843.914 — Literature & rhetoric French & related literatures French fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ2679 .O4 .D713 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1961-2000
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