L’oeuvre mobile de Michel Butor
Mobile work of Michel Butor

Author(s): Kateřina Sedláčková
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Michel Butor; French literature; fine arts; literature; art and writing; artwork and poetic language;
Summary/Abstract: This work defines the creative principles of Michel Butor’s less-known writings that are based on experiment, poetizing and interaction with fine arts. It analyses hundreds of texts and art sources and focuses on the five-part Illustrations cycle, pointing out Butor’s most important creative techniques: intertextuality, which deals with an innovative use of citations and rewriting not only other authors’ but especially his own texts; and intermediality, dealing with an interaction between fine arts and literature. It presents Butor’s transposition of an aesthetical effect provoked by an artwork into a poetic language. The analyses and theoretical reflections are placed into the broad context of Butor’s work, with an emphasis on theoretical issues and on the continuity of procedures throughout his work.

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