This essay combines the notions of creative paratopy and discursive ethos in order to shed light on aspects of the work of Benjamin Fondane, a Jewish writer of Romanian origin who chose French as his language of writing. Le Mal des fantômes, a collection of poems written in his adopted language, integrates the various dimensions of creative paratopy : in addition to the paratopy of identity, which in some cases becomes “maximal”, there is a spatial paratopy, a temporal paratopy and a linguistic paratopy. The analysis focuses on his first collection, which representatively includes most of his typologies, and shows that this unstable and erratic “localisation” is involved in the emergence of a “physicality” and a “character” which belong to a specific “ethical world” and point to “a dynamic of positioning” which is spread over several planes at the same time.
Paratopie créatrice et image de soi. "Le Mal des fantômes" de Benjamin Fondane au prisme de l’analyse du discours
Annafrancesca Naccarato
2023-01-01
Abstract
This essay combines the notions of creative paratopy and discursive ethos in order to shed light on aspects of the work of Benjamin Fondane, a Jewish writer of Romanian origin who chose French as his language of writing. Le Mal des fantômes, a collection of poems written in his adopted language, integrates the various dimensions of creative paratopy : in addition to the paratopy of identity, which in some cases becomes “maximal”, there is a spatial paratopy, a temporal paratopy and a linguistic paratopy. The analysis focuses on his first collection, which representatively includes most of his typologies, and shows that this unstable and erratic “localisation” is involved in the emergence of a “physicality” and a “character” which belong to a specific “ethical world” and point to “a dynamic of positioning” which is spread over several planes at the same time.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
