Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons

The links that Pascal Quignard’s work maintains with medieval literature are both discrete and numerous, in a writing that is shaped throughout by the confrontation with multiple aesthetic and literary universes. Developed by the contemporary writer, the concept of “past”, in the Lacanian sense, nev...

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Authors: Nicolau Jiménez, Adriana; Koble, Nathalie
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repository:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/150487
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10609/150487
https://doi.org/10.7202/1038500ar
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description The links that Pascal Quignard’s work maintains with medieval literature are both discrete and numerous, in a writing that is shaped throughout by the confrontation with multiple aesthetic and literary universes. Developed by the contemporary writer, the concept of “past”, in the Lacanian sense, nevertheless focuses attention on the memory that resonates in particular with the lost Middle Ages of fairy tales and the medieval conception of literary memory. The present article proposes to underscore this resonance by comparing and contrasting two narratives based on a largely similar plotline: Quignard’s “The Lost Voice” and the anonymous lai Tydorel. This comparative reading offers a mirror reflection of the inaccessibility of the source, represented in both texts by aquatic places/characters. In the time before language, this fantasized origin is, in the two texts, at the heart of a poetics of detour that aims to emphasize, through literary language, the most troubled waters of the amorous encounter.
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spelling Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons Voices of water: Pascal Quignard and “the lost voice” of the Breton lais Nicolau Jiménez, Adriana Koble, Nathalie The links that Pascal Quignard’s work maintains with medieval literature are both discrete and numerous, in a writing that is shaped throughout by the confrontation with multiple aesthetic and literary universes. Developed by the contemporary writer, the concept of “past”, in the Lacanian sense, nevertheless focuses attention on the memory that resonates in particular with the lost Middle Ages of fairy tales and the medieval conception of literary memory. The present article proposes to underscore this resonance by comparing and contrasting two narratives based on a largely similar plotline: Quignard’s “The Lost Voice” and the anonymous lai Tydorel. This comparative reading offers a mirror reflection of the inaccessibility of the source, represented in both texts by aquatic places/characters. In the time before language, this fantasized origin is, in the two texts, at the heart of a poetics of detour that aims to emphasize, through literary language, the most troubled waters of the amorous encounter. Université du Québec http://hdl.handle.net/10609/150487 https://doi.org/10.7202/1038500ar
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title_full Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons
title_fullStr Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons
title_full_unstemmed Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons
title_short Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons
title_sort Voix d’eau : Pascal Quignard et la «voix perdue» des lais bretons
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