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Quelques remarques sur l’influence de Boèce dans De casibus virorum illustrium, de Boccace (dans la traduction de Laurent de Premierfait)

Author(s): Laura Dumitrescu / Language(s): French Issue: 68/2019

This article aims at exploring some of the means of expressing subjectivity in Laurent de Premierfait’s translation of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. The notion of author, very different in medieval culture from our modern understanding, is altered primarily by the translator’s own comments, but also by a series of miniatures representing a powerful Fortuna that sometimes replaces the author. My analysis takes as a starting point the similarities between those miniatures and the representation of Fortuna in Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy and uses concepts meant to evaluate the compatibility between premodern and recent authorial avatars.

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The Fate of the Gods in the Poetry of Charles Leconte de Lisle and Lucian Blaga

Author(s): Valentina Sirangelo / Language(s): English Issue: 68/2019

The present article, which uses the hermeneutical strategies promoted by Pierre Brunel’s mythocritique, aims to investigate the Germanic eschatological myth of the “Fate of the Gods” in the poetry of Charles Leconte de Lisle and Lucian Blaga. After a historical-religious introduction on the “Fate of the Gods”, the article outlines its peculiar symbolic constellation. Subsequently, the article turns the archetypical approach into the mythocritical application to poetic texts. The poem La Légende des Nornes (The Legend of Norns, 1862) by Leconte de Lisle is a case of flexibilité of the “Fate of the Gods” myth in a literary text: the French poet reproduces the mythologeme of great winter and combines the outcomes of the deluge and those of conflagration into the original image of a smoking ocean. The poems Peisaj transcendent (Transcendental Landscape, 1929), Satul minunilor (The Village of Miracles, 1938) and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods, 1970) by Blaga are instead a case of irradiation of the “Fate of the Gods” myth in a literary text: although never mentioning the Germanic eschatological event, the Romanian poet depicts its dying god and the world renewal that follows it.

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L’(im)possible regard fenestral chez Toussaint et Viel ou comment poser les yeux sur le monde contemporain

Author(s): Cristina Croitoru / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2021

It is quite legitimate to ask whether the gaze – a function which, nowadays, is considered to be inherent to the window – is still possible in a world felt more and more opaque by an alienated individual, who no longer has any roots and who finds himself abandoned to the emptiness of his existence, hopelessly fallen inside his own body, with his “eyes in the void”. Both the protagonists of Toussaint and those of Viel seem to inhabit a world that can be described as equivocal, false, devoid of benchmarks to which they do not belong. The empty immensity of an increasingly opaque society frightens and we find them in interior spaces which they fill but which they have not necessarily tamed. Thus, to speak of any window and of the inherent gaze, in this perspective, means also speak of a non-window or an absence of the window from which an impossible gaze emerges through it.

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Explorer les frontières poreuses de la poésie. Variations prigentiennes

Author(s): Fabiana Florescu / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2021

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the prigentian poetical experience of deconstruction and the poetry conceived as a work in progress based this time on an inter-art dialogue. At the crossroads of literary theory and comparative literature, we will explore the author’s efforts to redefine the limits of the poetical experience and his intentions to even erase the conventional boundaries between literary or artistic categories. Since the poetical oeuvres of Prigent, as well as his theoretical work advance various reflections on the limits of the language and the medium of expression, we aim to analyze how this aspects impact the relation between text and image in the prigentian poetical work. Eventually, our work interrogates the role of the intertextual and intermedial dialogue in Prigent’s attempt to radically redefine the limits of the poetical experience.

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Compte rendu: Tanguy Viel, "La Fille qu’on appelle", Paris, Minuit, 2021

Author(s): Cristina Croitoru / Language(s): French Issue: 10/2021

Book review

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Compte rendu: Muriel Barbery, “Une heure de ferveur”, Paris, Actes Sud, 2022

Author(s): Ioana Belu / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2022

Book review: Muriel Barbery, “Une heure de ferveur”, Paris, Actes Sud, 2022

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Compte rendu: Brigitte Giraud, “Vivre vite”, Paris, Flammarion, 2022

Author(s): Giorgiana Hangu / Language(s): French Issue: 11/2022

Book review: Brigitte Giraud, “Vivre vite”, Paris, Flammarion, 2022

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L’écriture du corps malade ou un royaume pour ma mémoire: le personnage Cioran de Matéi Visniec

Author(s): Victoriţa Tudor / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

This article aims to analyse and to comprehend the complexity of a fictionalized character such as Emil Cioran in Visniec’s play, A Paris attic overlooking death, now, an old man suffering from Alzheimer’s, on the edge of death, having to endure not only his memory loss, but also an incessant whirlpool of thoughts and emotions of his past, now fragmentary, inaccurate, and inconclusive. Wandering in a labyrinth of mirrors and fragilities, we get to contemplate Cioran the human instead of Cioran the philosopher, therefore, to that extent, we’ll dismantle and immerge in his deconstructive and nihilist philosophy and his well-known paradoxes, but mostly, we will focus on how the play reveals a short story of decay, of a gradual disappearance into oblivion, contrary to the nirvanization of illness and lyricism of flesh so praised in his writings.

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Jeux autour d’un débordement poïétique dans "La Clef des langues" de Valère Novarina

Author(s): Fabiana Florescu / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

The work of Valère Novarina continues to express a very interesting reflection on the complex and heterogeneous dynamics of French contemporary literature. In his hybrid, both poetic and dramatic apparatus, but also in his performances or the context of his personal art exhibitions, Novarina develops a compound symbolic dialogue between text and image, thereby undermining the traditional frontiers between different semiotic systems. Furthermore, this inter-semiotic, even intermedial nature of the novarinian oeuvre is an obvious technical characteristic of the latest book of Novarina, La Clef des langues. In this article, we aim to analyze the strategies and the symbolic takes of what Novarina understands as a poetic débordement, namely an effort to break all thematical and practical limitations in the process of artistic creation. Our study focuses on the metadiscourse and we will examine the novarinian quest for a new poetic formula, as well as his endeavor to redefine the expressive literary discourse in the context of actual intermedial practices.

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Critique littéraire: Makenzy Orcel, "Une somme humaine", Paris, Rivages, 2022

Author(s): Fabiana Florescu / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Literary critique

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Compte rendu: Mokhtar Amoudi, "Les Conditions idéales", Paris, Gallimard, 2023

Author(s): Adnana Giroud (Popescu) / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Mokhtar Amoudi, "Les Conditions idéales", Paris, Gallimard, 2023

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Compte rendu: Dominique Barbéris, "Une façon d’aimer", Paris, Gallimard, 2023

Author(s): Cătălina Nistor / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Dominique Barbéris, "Une façon d’aimer", Paris, Gallimard, 2023

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Compte rendu: Cécile Desprairies, "La Propagandiste", Paris, Seuil, 2023

Author(s): Ioana Belu / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Cécile Desprairies, "La Propagandiste", Paris, Seuil, 2023

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Compte rendu: Neige Sinno, "Triste tigre", Paris, P.O.L, 2023

Author(s): Alicia Baba / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Neige Sinno, "Triste tigre", Paris, P.O.L, 2023

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Compte rendu: Neige Sinno, "Triste tigre", Paris, P.O.L, 2023

Author(s): Fabiana Florescu / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Neige Sinno, "Triste tigre", Paris, P.O.L, 2023

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Compte rendu: Jean-Philippe Toussaint, "L’Échiquier", Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 2023

Author(s): Gabriela Simion / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Review of: Jean-Philippe Toussaint, L’Échiquier, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 2023

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La littérature mise en échec(s). La Liste Goncourt – le Choix de l’Université de Bucarest 2023

Author(s): Lidia Cotea,Mihaela Gabriela Stănică,Fabiana Florescu / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Proceedings of the Goncourt Jury – the University of Bucharest’s choice, 2023

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METAMORPHOSES OF IDENTITY: A NEW APPROACH TO AUTOFICTION

Author(s): Alina Musat / Language(s): French Issue: 35/2023

In this work, we are interested in the concept of autofiction and its evolution. We begin research starting from the Lejeunian conception of autobiography, then we intend to study autofiction from its appearance in the work of Serge Doubrovsky to its manifestations. This approach will allow us to explore the way in which various definitions of autofiction are revealed both by these authors’ literary work and by theorization.

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LIRE-ENSEIGNER LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME DE MOLIERE EN CLASSE DE FRANÇAIS AU SECONDAIRE MAROCAIN : UNE ŒUVRE CLASSIQUE DEVANT DES ELEVES-LECTEURS ADOLESCENTS

Author(s): EL Mehdi El Maouloue / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2023

In this article, we have undertaken an in-depth study of the reading of classical texts, highlighting their current state. To this end, we examined the theoretical underpinnings of the teaching of these classical works in Morocco, seeking to understand how they are transmitted to students. We adopted a concrete approach, using the method of direct classroom observation to analyze the specific difficulties encountered when teaching a classical work to adolescent student-readers. In addition, we looked at the impact of Molière’s work on students’ ethical representations, seeking to determine how classical literature can influence their perception of the world and moral values. Finally, to encourage the development of students’ written production skills, we shared a practical experience using the pastiche of the exposition scene from Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. This comprehensive research aims to enrich our understanding of the importance of classical texts in contemporary education and proposes innovative pedagogical approaches to stimulate students’ interest and engagement with these iconic literary works.

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DOBRA ŚMIERĆ CHRZEŚCIJANINA OCZAMI SOPHIE DE SÉGUR (1799–1874)

Author(s): Alicja Bańczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2023

This paper attempts to analyse how Sophie de Ségur (1799–1874) performed the mission of spreading the Catholic faith through children’s literature. The biography of this Russian woman who converted to Catholicism is presented at the beginning, together with her connections with the Ultramontane environment being active in nineteenth-century France. This is to prove that de Ségur’s writing activities were part of a planned programme aimed at shaping society in the spirit of Catholicism. The analysis is carried out on the examples of how she presented scenes of a good Catholic death in three novels for children: "Les vacances, Jean qui grogne et Jean qui rit and La sœur Gribouille". The study is divided into three parts: the death of the mother, the death of the child, and the death of the sinner, according to the criterion whose death was described. It is shown that in de Ségur’s perspective, a good death is a reward for a good and pious life. The social aspect of death and good preparation for it are also important.

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