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to write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality that point where language alone acts, “performs,”
to write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality that point where language alone acts, “performs,”
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About Proust:
About Proust:
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blurring relation of the writer and his characters making the narrator not the person who has seen or felt, nor even the person who writes, but the person who will write.
blurring relation of the writer and his characters making the narrator not the person who has seen or felt, nor even the person who writes, but the person who will write.
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: also mentioned:
: also mentioned:
: Surrealism
: Surrealism
: discipline of Literature
: discipline of Literature

Revision as of 14:34, 2 November 2024

Roland Barthes, 1967

1 (Intro)

starting text with Sarrasine Balzac sentence, that he wonders about: who is speaking/ writing/ thinking this?
it's impossible to know bc all writing comes from this special voice, composed of multiple

2 (the author: a modern figure)

produced by society at end of middle ages, english empire and french nationalism, reformation
result of capitalist ideology

3 (perspectives)

About Mallarme:

to write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality that point where language alone acts, “performs,”

About Proust:

blurring relation of the writer and his characters making the narrator not the person who has seen or felt, nor even the person who writes, but the person who will write.

also mentioned:
Surrealism
discipline of Literature