Cover not available

In:A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe
Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXV] 2024
► pp. 174–186

Get fulltext
PDF logo with download linkDownload Chapter PDF

1.2.6
French traditions

Confronting the traces of creation

 | Sorbonne University | Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes (ITEM)
Open Access logo
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

For any use beyond this license, please contact the publisher at rights@benjamins.nl.

Published online: 8 November 2024
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxv.12joh
Abstract
Victor Hugo’s bequest of all his work documents to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1881 shook off a tradition characterised by a certain indifference to the manuscript in its material and historic existence. Despite some one-off undertakings, it was not until the 1960s that an original theory and a systematic method of examining manuscripts, and more particularly drafts in their various forms, was developed in France: genetic criticism’s concerns and procedures, in their intention to understand the gestation processes of a work through each of its material traces, have spread throughout Europe and the world, and have become essential in the field of textual criticism.
Article outline
  • Philological practices
  • The manuscripts’ heritage: From Victor Hugo to Louis Aragon
  • Genetic criticism
  • Editing manuscripts
  • Horizons and challenges
  • Notes
  • References
References (40)
References
Albalat, Antoine. 1903. Le Travail du style enseigné par les corrections manuscrites des grands écrivains. Paris: Armand Colin.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Aragon, Louis. 1969. Je n’ai jamais appris à écrire ou les Incipit. Genève: Skira.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1979. “D’un grand art nouveau: la recherche.” In Essais de critique génétique, 7–19. Paris: Flammarion.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Audiat, Pierre. 1924. La Biographie de l'oeuvre littéraire: Esquisse d’une méthode critique. Paris: Honoré Champion.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
De Biasi, Pierre-Marc. 2010. “Pour une génétique généralisée: l’approche des processus à l’âge numérique.” Genesis 30: 163–175. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2011. Génétique des textes. Paris: CNRS éditions.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2017. “‘Je donne tous mes manuscrits…’ ou Les deux corps de l’écrivain.” Genesis 45: 37–50. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2020. “Le bon génie de la genèse.” Genesis 50: 19–32. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Coron, Sabine and Marie-Dominique Nobécourt Mutarelli. 2017. “La Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet ou la bibliothèque idéale selon Gide.” In L’Œuvre comme processus, ed. by P.-M. de Biasi and A. Herschberg Pierrot, 387–390. Paris: CNRS éditions.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cousin, Victor. 1843. Des pensées de Pascal: Rapport à l'Académie française sur la nécessité d'une nouvelle édition de cet ouvrage. Paris: Ladrange.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crasson, Aurèle, Jean-Louis Lebrave, and Jérémy Pedrazzi. 2019. “Le ‘siliscrit’ de Jacques Derrida. Exploration d’une archive nativement numérique.” Genesis 49: 7–12. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Depaule, Jean-Charles. 2014. “La fable d’une fabrique – Ponge et son pré.” Gradhiva 20: 22–47. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Derrida, Jacques, and Daniel Ferrer. 2001. “‘Entre le corps écrivant et l’écriture...’, entretien avec Daniel Ferrer.” Genesis 17: 59–72. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Deseilligny, Oriane. 2011. “Maulpoix.net : dans l’intimité de l’écriture poétique.” Genesis 32: 117–126. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
D’Iorio, Paolo. 2010. “Qu’est-ce qu’une édition génétique numérique?” Genesis 30: 49–53. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Espagne, Michel. 1997. “L’invention de la philologie. Les échos français d’un modèle allemand.” Histoire Épistémologie Langage 19 (1): 121–134. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2010. “Philologie et critique génétique.” Genesis 30: 19–20. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ferrer, Daniel. 2010. “Critique génétique et philologie: racine de la différence.” Genesis 30: 21–23. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2016. “Genetic Criticism with Textual Criticism: From Variant to Variation.” Variants 12–13: 57–64. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Flaubert, Gustave. 1936. Madame Bovary, ébauches et fragments inédits recueillis d’après les manuscrits, ed. by Gabrielle Leleu. Paris: Conard.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Grésillon, Almuth. [1994] 2016. Elements de critique génétique. Paris: CNRS éditions.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hay, Louis. 1994. “Critiques de la critique génétique.” Genesis 6: 11–23. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Italia, Paola. 2019. “Aux origines de la critique des paperasses.” Genesis 49: 47–59. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Johansson, Franz. 2021. “Le site jptoussaint.com: création informatique et discours génétique.” L’Entre-deux 9 (1).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lanson, Gustave. 1930. “Un manuscrit de Paul et Virginie. Étude sur l’invention de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.” In Etudes d’histoire littéraire réunies et publiées par ses collègues ses élèves et ses amis, 224–258. Paris: Honoré Champion.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lebrave, Jean-Louis. 1992. “La critique génétique: une discipline nouvelle ou un avatar moderne de la philologie?” Genesis 1: 33–72. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2011. “Computer forensics: la critique génétique et l’écriture numérique.” Genesis 33: 137–147. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Leriche, Françoise. 2013. “Rééditer Proust au vingt et unième siècle.” Genesis 36: 25–35. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Massis, Henri. 1906. Comment Emile Zola composait ses romans. Paris: Eugène Fasquelle.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pagès, Alain. 2017. “Aux origines de la critique génétique: la figure de Henri Massis.” In L’Œuvre comme processus, ed. by P.-M. de Biasi and A. Herschberg Pierrot, 73–78. Paris: CNRS éditions.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pascal, Blaise. 1670. Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont été trouvées après sa mort parmi ses papiers. Paris: Guillaume Deprez.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1844. Pensées, fragments et lettres de Blaise Pascal, publiés pour la première fois conformément aux manuscrits originaux, en grande partie inédits, ed. by Prosper Faugère. Paris: Andrieux.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pierrot, Roger. 1994. “Un pionnier des études génétiques. Le vicomte de Lovenjoul et Les Paysans de Balzac.” Genesis 5: 167–173. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ponge, Francis. 1971. La Fabrique du pré. Genève: Skira.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rudler, Gustave. 1923. Les Techniques de la critique et de l'histoire littéraires en littérature française moderne. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Segre, Cesare. 1995. “Critique des variantes et critique génétique.” Genesis 7: 29–45. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Triolet, Elsa. 1969. La mise en mots. Genève: Skira.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Valéry, Paul. [1937] 1948. “Comment travaillent les écrivains.” In Vues, 315–321. Paris: La Table ronde.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. [1938] 2016. “Leçon inaugurale au cours de poétique du Collège de France.” In Œuvres, III, ed. by Michel Jarrety, 953–974. Paris: Le Livre de poche.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Van Hulle, Dirk. 2013. “Un plaidoyer pour l’édition génétique: les Cahiers de Proust.” Genesis 36: 151–154. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue