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De Paul Valéry (« découvrir quel problème l'auteur s'est posé ») à une lecture de Michaël Ferrier
Ist Teil von
Contemporary French and francophone studies, 2023-08, Vol.27 (4), p.595-606
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article considers Valéry's postulation (Cahiers, 1923) that critics should work on discovering the « problem » experienced by the author consciously or unconsciously and decide whether it was successfully resolved. Three years later, Valéry added that critics should therefore concentrate their attention on the work itself and try to decipher all its meanings through close reading (Cahiers, 1926). Through interviews and multiple exchanges with readers, Ferrier, the author, himself a seasoned critic, provides many reading clues. Such practices, however, threaten to kill critics' efforts by turning them into parrots, less good than their master, and perhaps kept away from offering new perspectives. Also, another trap for critics is to take their own reading problems for those the writer might have had. The only solution is to reject the « affective fallacy » denounced by The New Critics, and to consider texts between author, narrator, contexts and critic. This article deals with François, portrait d'un absent, and Scrabble. Une enfance tchadienne. The conclusion briefly examines Valéry's negative attitude towards novels, wondering what his reactions might have been, if confronted, for instance, with Glissant's or Ferrier's poetic novels.