Panser la blessure, par Églantine Colon ; suivi d’une lettre de Philippe Lançon

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Notes

1 Sur la relation entre littérature, soin et réparation, voir notamment Églantine Colon, “Securing Form in Times of In/security. Strategies of Formal Care in Antoine Volodine’s Post-exoticism.” English Language Notes, vol. 54, no. 2, 2016, pp. 141–157 ; et Alexandre Gefen, Réparer le monde. Paris, José Corti, 2017.

2 J’emprunte cette expression à Michel Foucault : “Les Techniques de soi.” Dits et écrits II, Paris, Gallimard, 2001, pp. 1602–1632.

3 Philippe Lançon, Les Îles. Paris J.-C. Lattès, 2011 ; L’Élan, Paris, Gallimard, 2013.

4 Walter Benjamin, “Thèses sur le concept d’histoire.” Écrits français, Paris, Gallimard, 1991.

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Églantine Colon

Églantine Colon is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in contemporary French Studies and critical theory. She has published articles on urban precarity in Philippe Vasset’s texts (French Studies), on care and security in Antoine Volodine’s post-exoticism (English Language Notes), and on Maoism in Jean Rolin’s travel narratives (Fixxion). She is currently writing a book on the relationships between form, care, and radical politics.

Philippe Lançon

Philippe Lançon is a journalist and a literary critic at Libération and Charlie Hebdo, as well as a literary writer. Under his name, he has published Les Îles in 2011 (J.-C. Lattès) and L’Élan in 2013 (Gallimard). After being seriously injured during the January 2015 attacks at Charlie Hebdo, he published Le Lambeau, which narrates the long process of his recovery. Le Lambeau was awarded the “Prix Fémina” in 2018 and the “Prix ‘spécial’ Renaudot” in 2018.