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Faced with the hermetic interiority of post-structuralist narratives, twenty-first-century French literature tends to turn outwards and explore sociohistorical realities as a fertile source of fiction. In this article, I compare two contemporary writers rarely paired together—Anne Garréta and Leïla Slimani—to consider the enduring importance of discursive paradigms in realizing a sense of self. Although Garréta’s mechanised autobiographical aesthetic in Pas un Jour seems to jar with Slimani’s ethnographic journalism in Sexe et mensonges, I argue that both use heuristic narratives to conduct a survey of female desire whose reality is only legible in literature. Intersecting with narrative theories formulated by Barthes, Jameson and Cixous, this article argues that Slimani and Garréta perform their lived sexual experience through a carefully manufactured textual machine that grants them freedom. Only through the straitjacket of a fictional system can the reader glean the reality of female subjectivities so long obscured by myth.
“寻找小说”:安妮·加里塔(Anne Garréta)的《Pas un jour》和莱拉·斯莱马尼(Leïla Slimani)的《性与谎言》中的自我实现故事
面对后结构主义叙事的封闭的内在性,21世纪的法国文学倾向于转向外部,探索社会历史现实作为小说的肥沃来源。在这篇文章中,我比较了两位很少搭档的当代作家——安妮·加尔姆萨塔和Leïla斯利马尼——来思考话语范式在实现自我意识方面的持久重要性。尽管garrsameta在《Pas un Jour》中机械化的自传体美学似乎与Slimani在《性与男人》中的民族志新闻不一致,但我认为两者都使用启发式叙事对女性欲望进行了调查,而女性欲望的现实只有在文学中才能清晰可辨。本文与巴特、詹姆逊和西克修斯的叙事理论相结合,认为斯利马尼和加尔萨塔通过精心制造的文本机器来表现他们的性经历,这台机器赋予了他们自由。只有通过小说系统的束缚,读者才能收集到长期被神话所掩盖的女性主体性的现实。
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.