Il Parlamento degli invisibili: Note sull’estetica “ingenua” del progetto di Pierre Rosanvallon

Abstract

Founded in 2014 by Pierre Rosanvallon, a professor in history and sociology at the École des Hautes Études in Social Sciences in Paris, the publishing collection Raconter la vie invites any person, layman and professional writer alike, to produce their own life testimonies. How does the professor's initiative claim to be ‘literary’ while at the same time claiming to extract itself from the conditions of possibility that determine a ‘literary’ text (work on the text, writing as mediation, authority, and peer recognition)? To what extent does Rosanvallon invoke the name of the novel and its specific symbolic profits, denying it?

Keywords

• literary democracy
• disciplinary definitions
• method
• narrative writing
• community