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    Pretending Sleep

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    The Source

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    Train of Thought

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    WRITING FOR ONESELF: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW DAVIDSON

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    The Pleasure of Presence: Aristippus’ Ironic Hedonism

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    Aristippus of Cyrene (435-350) was a hedonist, but of a most peculiar stripe. While he identified pleasure as the highest good, he restricted its temporal range to the present. As Diogenes Laertius puts it, he "enjoyed the pleasure of what was present (ἀπέλαυε μὲν γὰρ ἡδονῆς τῶν παρόντων), and did not toil to procure the enjoyment of things not present" (II.66). The goal of this paper is to make sense of this claim

    Old Dog

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    Book Reviews

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    Reviews of  Scott Bane, A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney Stephen Morrissey, The Green Archetypal Field of Poetry: On Poetry, Poets, and Psyche Ruth Panofsky, Bring Them Forth; Aaron Schneider,The Supply Chain T. P. Wood,77° Nort

    The Thing With The Wings

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    « Le noeud gordien de ma propre entreprise » L’autofiction selon Philippe Vilain

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    Philippe Vilain is one of the few writers to designate autofiction as his preferred genre and, what is more, to subscribe in his essays to Doubrovsky’s most restricted conception of the genre, which combines fiction and homonymity (the author and protagonist must share the same name). Vilain nonetheless relaxes this definition by allowing the narrator-character to remain anonymous: this is ‘‘anomalous’’ autofiction. This article examines the theoretical validity of this thesis and its implementation in Vilain’s novels.Philippe Vilain est l’un des rares écrivains à désigner l’autofiction comme son genre de prédilection et, de surcroît, à souscrire dans ses essais à la conception la plus restreinte du genre, celle de Doubrovsky, qui conjugue fiction et homonymat (l’auteur et son protagoniste doivent porter le même nom). Vilain assouplit néanmoins cette définition enadmettant que le narrateur-personnage puisse rester anonyme : c’est l’autofiction « anominale ». L’article examine la pertinence théorique de cette thèse et sa mise en oeuvre dans les romans de Vilain

    Un albatros dans la prose : notes sur Confession d’un timide de Philippe Vilain

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    Can a writer be shy? Can a work that drinks from the living source of the self be the work of a shy one? Can we imagine a timid person publishing a confession where he declares himself to the world, timid? To answer yes to these questions is to open the way to the paradox that is the subject of this study: for Philippe Vilain, literature is the discourse by which the shy man returns like a glove the passion that prevents him from speaking; what can not be said, so you’ll have to write it. By undertaking an investigation into shyness (an intimate passion if any), by trying to describe it, to define it, by making an inventory of everything it deprives — Philippe Vilain questions the secret of his art: a classical writing, a restrained style, a sober and tense prose are his way of inscribing shyness at the heart of the work, of radiating the modesty of the language in the shamelessness of the book.Un écrivain peut-il être timide ? Une oeuvre qui s’abreuve à la source vive du moi peut-elle être l’oeuvre d’un timide ? Peut-on imaginer un timide publier une confession où il se déclare, à la face du monde, timide ? Répondre oui à ces questions, c’est ouvrir la voie au paradoxe qui fait l’objet de cette étude : pour Philippe Vilain, la littérature est le discours par lequel l’homme timide retourne comme un gant la passion qui l’empêche de parler ; ce qu’on ne peut pas dire, il faudra donc l’écrire. En entreprenant une enquête sur la timidité (passion intime s’il en est), en s’efforçant de la décrire, de la définir, en faisant l’inventaire de tout ce dont elle prive — Philippe Vilain interroge le secret de son art : une écriture classique, un style tenu, une prose sobre et tendue sont sa manière d’inscrire la timidité au coeur de l’oeuvre, de faire rayonner la pudeur de la langue dans l’impudeur du livre

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