Toby Garfitt
University of Oxford, Medieval and Modern Languages, Faculty Member
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... The book will be of interest for both specialists of Haiti and Franco-phone literature, as well as anyone wishing a general introduction to postwar Haitian Literature. ... TOBY GARFITT doi:10.1093/fs/knn124 MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD ...
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Sylvie Germain a toujours reconnu sa dette envers le philosophe Emmanuel Levinas, dont elle a pu suivre les cours à la Sorbonne dans les années 1970. Elle en parle volontiers dans des interviews ; on a sollicité son témoignage pour le... more
Sylvie Germain a toujours reconnu sa dette envers le philosophe Emmanuel Levinas, dont elle a pu suivre les cours à la Sorbonne dans les années 1970. Elle en parle volontiers dans des interviews ; on a sollicité son témoignage pour le « dossier Levinas » du Magazine littéraire en 2003 ; et tout récemment, en novembre 2006, dans le cadre d’une journée d’étude organisée au Centre Pompidou par la Bibliothèque publique d’information pour marquer le centenaire du philosophe, elle a évoqué ce qu’el..
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When speaking of formative influences on Camus, it would be a mistake to concentrate exclusively on the 'great' names: Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Gide, and so on. Like any French boy with a passion for reading, the young Albert Camus... more
When speaking of formative influences on Camus, it would be a mistake to concentrate exclusively on the 'great' names: Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Gide, and so on. Like any French boy with a passion for reading, the young Albert Camus lived largely on a diet of adventure stories, among which the historical series about the swashbuckling hero Pardaillan by Michel Zevaco took pride of place (Sartre acknowledges his own debt to this series in his autobiographical text, Les Mots ( Words )). Well before he was a confident reader himself, he was moved by Roland Dorgeles's First World War novel of the trenches Les Croix de bois ( The Wooden Crosses ), which his revered primary teacher Louis Germain used to read to the pupils at the end of term and on other special occasions: it introduced him to a different form of heroism from that of Pardaillan, and provided an essential link with his own father, who had died before Albert was two, from wounds received at the Battle of the Marne. At the Grand Lycee in Algiers, where Camus discovered a totally different world from that of the rough working-class district of Belcourt where he grew up, the author who appealed most to him was probably Moliere. The implications of that are still to be explored, both for his dramatic practice and for his often unrecognised humour. humour. By the age of sixteen, in the classe de premiere , he was beginning to explore outside the school syllabus, and that was the year his uncle Gustave Acault lent him Andre Gide’s Les Nourritures terrestres (Fruits of the Earth) . Gide’s lyrical celebration of heady, sensual pleasure did not immediately speak to him. ‘A Alger, a seize ans, j’etais sature de ces richesses; j’en souhaitais d’autres, sans doute’ ( Ess , 1117) (‘In Algiers, at sixteen, I was saturated with these riches; no doubt I was looking for something else’). It was in the following year, 1930–1, that Camus encountered the man who was to unlock the world of books and ideas for him.
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Le graal magique des Celtes sera accaparé par une récupération chrétienne pour devenir un Calice dans lequel, ‘selon les évangiles apocryphes, Joseph d’Arimathie aurait recueilli le sang découlant des plaies du Christ crucifié’ (R.... more
Le graal magique des Celtes sera accaparé par une récupération chrétienne pour devenir un Calice dans lequel, ‘selon les évangiles apocryphes, Joseph d’Arimathie aurait recueilli le sang découlant des plaies du Christ crucifié’ (R. Baudry, ‘Dan Brown et les métamorphoses du Graal’, in Connaissance des Hommes (Arts, Sciences, Techniques), 52 [septembre 2006], p. 6 et suivantes). Ayant longtemps vécu au contact de la terre magique d’Afrique, R. Baudry nous propose une ‘lecture magique’ du roman d’Alain-Fournier, roman dans lequel il reconnaı̂t le Pays Gaste du Conte, la ‘sympathie magique’ qui lie le destin du Domaine mystérieux à celui de ses Merveilles, ‘la fée et la princesse’ (Le Grand Meaulnes, p. 208), l’Initiation manquée, les questions tues, l’Echec . . .
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Julien Green: A Critical Study. By Michael O'Dwyer. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997. 166 pp.The Double Vocation: Christian Presence in Twentieth-Century French Fiction. By John M. Dunaway. Birmingham, AL, Summa, 1996. xi+196 pp.The Story of Two Souls: The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Ju...more
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Ce bouquet d'études dialoguant entre elles tout en approfondissant l'enquête sur la figure et l'œuvre de Sylvie Germain – romancière et essayiste capitale de notre temps – constitue un vaste panorama éclairant les principales... more
Ce bouquet d'études dialoguant entre elles tout en approfondissant l'enquête sur la figure et l'œuvre de Sylvie Germain – romancière et essayiste capitale de notre temps – constitue un vaste panorama éclairant les principales facettes de son univers : sa pensée et sa vision du monde, son esthétique et son éthique, son interrogation sur le sens de l'existence, sa création. Chaque spécialiste s'est attaché à mettre en évidence une de ses caractéristiques, de sorte que c'est un premier bilan qui est ici rassemblé, où se succèdent des considérations sur l'histoire littéraire et la grande Histoire, la situation de la pensée de l'auteur, les spécificités et le travail de son imaginaire et de son écriture, ses conceptions esthétiques et éthiques, l'univers propre à ses romans et les modalités de sa création romanesque, la singularité de sa voix. Le tout est accompagné par la présence, l'écoute et les réactions de Sylvie Germain, et suivi d'une bibliographie de référence
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drawn from a conference in 2013 marking the centenary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann, approach jealousy not only as a theme, but also as a form of language (Isabelle Serça), a structuring device (Rainer Warning, Philippe... more
drawn from a conference in 2013 marking the centenary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann, approach jealousy not only as a theme, but also as a form of language (Isabelle Serça), a structuring device (Rainer Warning, Philippe Chardin), and a mode of thought (Mina Darabi Amin, Christina Kkona). The concept of jealousy itself is defined both from within À la recherche (Daniele Garritano, Darabi Amin, Stéphane Chaudier) and from without (Serça’s examples range from La Fontaine to Pagnol). The wide range of backgrounds of this international team of contributors manifests itself through the different methodologies to be found within the pages of the volume, including genetic criticism (Jean-Marc Quaranta), material culture (Áine Larkin), comparative literature (Jennifer Rushworth), and reception studies in both literature (Audrey Giboux, Maja Vukuši c Zorica, Thanh-Vân Ton-That, Yona Hanhart-Marmor) and film (Erika Fülöp, Candida Yates). While most contributions focus on the para...
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counter to some Bernanos critics who are simply determined to nail the latter’s colours to the mast of modernity. According to the hypothesis of Bernanos the Carmelite, the experience of le vide or le néant is not an end in itself, a... more
counter to some Bernanos critics who are simply determined to nail the latter’s colours to the mast of modernity. According to the hypothesis of Bernanos the Carmelite, the experience of le vide or le néant is not an end in itself, a seedbed for mere literary creativity, nor even sincerely anguished expressivism, but part of a well-known Carmelite journey from the arid love of self to the fruitful love of God. From this starting point, Richard identifies in Bernanos’s writing an aesthetic of prayer, leading to a range of theologically inspired stylistics, all finding their fulfilment in the narrative implications of the night of Holy Saturday. In this last perspective, the night in Bernanos is not only the dark night of the senses and the soul: it is primordially the dark night of the separation of the Father and the Son that precedes the Resurrection. Here readers will detect the influence of Hans Urs von Balthasar for whom Samedi saint was the temporal locus for a dramatique divine (Mysterium Paschale (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970)). In other words, Richard’s interpretation shows Bernanos to be fully in line with so much of the Catholic literary revival of the Belle Époque, whose collective project was to render divine agency imaginable once more. In his conclusion Richard evokes the possibility of extending his analysis regarding the musical threads in Bernanos’s imagination. It is to be hoped this next work will not be long in coming.