{"title":"La Littérature comme jeu : Pourquoi Bologne d’Alain Farah","authors":"Jean-Michel Gouvard","doi":"10.3828/AJFS.2021.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\nThis article first outlines the characteristics of Alain Farah’s project in his latest novel, Pourquoi Bologne, in which his auto-fictional narrative develops out of an experimental approach that questions what literature can and cannot achieve. Farah’s writing thereby casts doubt on our capacity to account for the modern world and life in it. In its second part, the article engages in a detailed commentary of two passages in the novel to show how such a conception of literature conditions the use of writing and compositional strategies that create the impression of a game whose outcome is unclear but nevertheless worth playing.","PeriodicalId":8649,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of French Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australian Journal of French Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2021.15","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article first outlines the characteristics of Alain Farah’s project in his latest novel, Pourquoi Bologne, in which his auto-fictional narrative develops out of an experimental approach that questions what literature can and cannot achieve. Farah’s writing thereby casts doubt on our capacity to account for the modern world and life in it. In its second part, the article engages in a detailed commentary of two passages in the novel to show how such a conception of literature conditions the use of writing and compositional strategies that create the impression of a game whose outcome is unclear but nevertheless worth playing.
期刊介绍:
The Australian Journal of French Studies is an international, fully refereed journal devoted to French literature, culture, society and history. The journal encourages new theoretical engagements and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. Articles are published in English and French. The majority of numbers are focussed on a specific theme, but numbers on miscellaneous topics will usually be published annually.