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Avec Michel Deguy

Entre nostalgie et dystopie ? La vision écologique de Michel Deguy

 

ABSTRACT

This article describes Michel Deguy's attitude toward change manifested in his ecological vision. From his sober consideration of Baudelaire's unfulfilled prophecy that the world will end, to his own realization of the drastic mutations in his own world, Deguy acknowledges the inevitability of historical change. During more than two decades, he shared his vision with the artist Bertrand Dorny. Many of his ideas on this topic were first expressed in the artists’ books they created together. In his recent volumes, La Fin dans le monde and Écologiques, he continues to elaborate his personal definition of ecology, and his distinct version of ecological criticism which goes beyond notions of nostalgia and dystopia.

Notes

1. Deguy a repris ce poème, écrit sur commande de et pour Bertrand Dorny, sous le titre « Lettre de voyeur » dans un volume consacré à Michel Butor, autre ami et collaborateur de Dorny. Voir Calle-Gruber, Mireille, ed. Michel Butor : Déménagements de la littérature. Paris : Les Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2008. 122.

2. Ce passage de « Les fins de la littérature : Écologie et poésie » mérite d’être cité bien qu'il ouvre un questionnement menant à un autre débat : « Et peut-être, l'hésitation, ou la rivalité, entre cette formulation et celle où il s'agit de changer la vie ou de changer de vie, échangeant le monde pour la vie dans un temps où vie reçoit les détermination[s] biologiques ou de valeur absolue, d'individualisation absolutisée, commande-t-elle la réorientation des fins, parmi lesquelles celles de la “littérature” » (103).

3. Voir aussi le livre de Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

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Notes on contributors

Adelaide M. Russo

Adelaide M. Russo, Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies, directs the PhD Program in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. She organized the 2015 International Colloquium in 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Literature. She has written on avant-garde movements, contemporary poetry and philosophy, Michel Deguy, Bertrand Dorny, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

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