AUTOBIOGRAPHIE DES OBJETS DE FRANÇOIS BON, OU JE VOUS PARLE D’UN TEMPS QUE LES MOINS DE 50 ANS NE PEUVENT PAS CONNAITRE...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE OBJECTS OF FRANÇOIS BON, OR I SPEAK TO YOU OF A TIME THAT THE LESS THAN 50 YEARS CAN NOT KNOW...

Summary/Abstract: Everyday objects have been considered by some authors as belonging to a mythology, whether collective (Barthes) or personal (Leiris). Signs of a world sinking inexorably in the past, they also have a strong memory burden and are therefore closely related to an identity quest. The work of François Bon, Autobiography des objects (2012), reconfigures this quest for identity, which the genre of autobiography summoned by the title immediately indicates, and is deliberatelya-nostalgic. The remembrance of the obsolete or disappeared object has a heuristic value. The fragmentary writing, corresponding to an arbitrary list of objects, accounts both for the complexity of a world to which the canonical narrative is no longer appropriate and for the role of the digital matrix in a pioneering writer in this field. But the text is also a societal and scriptural quest. They are questioned the fundamental movements of French society, moving from a subsistence economy to consumerism, from a community organization to anonymity, from permanence to wandering, from the world of objects to the world of the immaterial. We also see the founding principles of the author’s writing, and their conditions of emergence, in particular as regard the relation to the real, with a strong romantic potentiality and its representation, in the from of modular “resources”. Which here take the from of “text blocks” corresponding to sixty-four names of objects. Autobiography of objects is thus less a story than the quest and construction of what makes history.

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