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Article published In: Revue Romane
Vol. 55:2 (2020) ► pp.214–236

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Articles Littéraires

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jeu intertextuel dans « le cycle de Marie »

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Article language: French

Published online: 23 September 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.17007.bro
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the intertextual play in four novels grouped under the label « MARIE MADELEINE MARGUERITE DE MONTALTE » by the Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint. The theoretical tool to study this phenomenon is the theory of intertextuality and the intertextual typology in particular, extracted from Gérard Genette’s Palimpsestes: la littérature au second degré (1982) and Tiphaine Samoyault’s Intertexte, Mémoire de la littérature (Samoyault, T. (2001): Intertexte. Mémoire de la littérature. Nathan/HER, Paris.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar). The main question the study raises is what function the intertexts occupy in the tetralogy. The article distinguishes between a diegetic and a metaliterary function. The study shows that the intertexts, mostly allusions, only play a minor role in the diegesis. However, several allusions occupy a metaliterary function. Through these, the author debates literary questions. The author’s attitude is playful: He gently mocks the authors behind the intertexts and enters into a dialogue with them at the same time.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Approche théorique et méthodique
  • 3.Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte
  • 4.Réminiscences proustiennes
  • 5.Le Zahir
  • 6.La nausée
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notas
  • Bibliographie
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