Jean-Michel Leniaud review of Etlin Symbolic Space (original) (raw)

"[L'espace] n'a de sens que si on l'accepte". Sens, S.E.N.Svr : remediation and reinterpretations

The present article analyses the representation of spatiality in the narrative ecosystem made up of the graphic novel Sens and the application S.E.N.Svr. The article aims at showing that beside brilliant attractions, the transmediatic text questions our representations of space thanks to the reinterpretations implied by the remediation process, which does not result in an illusion but seems rather to bear the augmentation of a fictionnal universe.

« Forme et méthode du commentaire d’Héracléon sur Jean », Adamantius 15, 2009, p. 150-176.

Cette étude de la forme du Commentaire d'Héracléon sur l'évangile de Jean, tel que nous pouvons le connaître par les citations d'Origène, montre chez cet auteur une grande clarté dans l'approche de la ligne du récit évangélique, un souci de situer Jean en perspective par rapport aux synoptiques, un intérêt pour la psychologie des dialogues et une vraie qualité littéraire dans l'amplification et la réécriture des scènes évangéliques. Ces divers traits attestent la formation littéraire d'Héracléon et la qualité de son niveau culturel, c'est-à-dire aussi, sans doute, social. En outre, certaines allusions permettent de penser qu'Héracléon s'appuyait sur des lectures déjà traditionnelles dans l'Église, dont certaines se retrouvent chez Irénée.

L'Espace interstitiel, lieu des possibles. Le futur selon Volodine

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES, 2017

Antoine Volodine presents himself as the spokesperson of a fictitious authors’ community that is imprisoned under strict supervision. By weaving their voices, narratives, and identities, these writers sketch the map of a dystopia where meaning flows through what I conceptualize as an “interstitial space.” Being an area of transit and transition, it is a space of individuation, which I propose to highlight throughout Volodine’s novel Le Port inte rieur (Minuit, 1995). Its main character, as an avatar of the postmodern individual, seems to be uncertain of his status as a “person” in a reality that tends to objectify him and push him into disappearance and impersonality (Rabat e, Esposito). The disembodied Volodinian character enters a zone of impossible enunciation, which makes him unable to assume his “I” towards a “you”; as a result, he lets himself be enunciated by the spirit of the place, which destabilizes and reduces his ego to a space-time dimension. This painful realization, coupled with his giving up on the future, opens up a dialectic of opposites through which the character can be fluidly individuated beyond the absolute categorization of identity (Serres, Agier). However, in this in-between state, a metamorphosis starts and tends toward a personal revolution that reveals the interstitial space as an utopian stasis (Jameson), carrying an impulse towards the future as well as the germ of a collective regeneration.