Mallarme's Sunset: Poetry at the End of Time by Barnaby Norman

Author:Barnaby Norman [Norman, Barnaby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367601157
Amazon: B073RQTGWZ
Barnesnoble: B073RQTGWZ
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

[Literature contemplates itself in revolution, it finds its justification in revolution, and if it has been called the Reign of Terror, this is because its ideal is indeed that moment in history, that moment when ‘life endures death and maintains itself in it’ in order to gain from death the possibility of speaking and the truth of speech. This is the ‘question’ that seeks to pose itself in literature, the ‘question’ that is its essence (WF, p. 321–22)]

If ‘littérature’ catches sight of itself in the Revolution, this is because the Revolution is a time of general negation. Everything is put into question, the ancien régime is dispatched, and it is from a base of nothing that the world is created. ‘Littérature’ cannot help but be drawn to this moment, and in truth it discovers itself there:

Moments fabuleux en effet: en eux parle la fable, en eux la parole de la fable se fait action. Qu’ils se tentent l’écrivain, rien plus justifié. L’action révolutionnaire est en tous points analogue à l’action telle que l’incarne la littérature: passage de rien à tout. (PF, p. 322)

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