Syndrom Asperna: w archiwach Natalie Barney
Natalie Barney’s Archive: Aspern’s Syndrome

Summary/Abstract: Natalie Barney is an American writer born in Dayton (Ohio) in 1876. Her archives are kept in the Jacques Doucet Literary Library in Paris, but access to them is possible only under exceptionally rigid supervision and has been restricted for several past years. Some totally unavailable documents include, i.a. Les Carnets and the original version of Mémoires, today published in an edited version. In order to examine the entire Barney oeuvre we thus must take into account that, which had been excluded and perform a reversed procedure in which everything that does not appear to be essential becomes just as significant as that which is legible. What do those documents contain? What is so essential that it cannot be disclosed? What does the closed archive tell us? This is precisely what Marie-Ève Lacasse calls “Aspern’s syndrome”.

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