Continents manuscrits (Apr 2021)
De l’achevé à l’inaccompli en passant par le recomposé : corpus, archives et enjeux génétiques des écrits de Simone et André Schwarz-Bart
Abstract
Fragmentary, shifting and the subject of past external interventions, the Schwarz-Bart archives reflect the complexity of a double, if not triple, corpus, partly posthumous and recomposed. The article attempts to outline the differentiated genetic approaches that these specificities induce. In particular, the recomposed texts raise the question of other possibilities, i.e. what could have been different. This question is all the more acute in the case of a pre-text, such as the “Kaddish” project, which has not or only partially led to a completed text. Doesn’t the exploded archive and its multiple virtualities become a work in itself? And how, genetically, should one consider the drive of destruction at work in a process which is initially quite the opposite: that of a creation?
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