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Articles

Georges Perec à Montréal : Le bonimenteur

Pages 631-639 | Published online: 01 Feb 2022
 

Abstract

In April 1975, Georges Perec worked incognito in Montreal on the narrative commentary for the documentary Ahô au cœur du monde primitif, directed by Daniel Bertolino and François Floquet. This article describes the working methods of the writer and analyzes his role in this project in the light of the information provided by the director Bertolino himself. The ambiguous narrative position assumed by Perec, neither the author of the original script nor the filmmaker who captured the images, is comparable to that of a silent film narrator.

Notes

1 Les réalisateurs auraient d’abord sollicité Bernard Queysanne, qui suggéra Georges Perec. L’hypothèse d’une commande à relais reste discutable (David Bellos, Georges Perec, une vie dans les mots, Paris, Seuil, 1994, p. 579).

2 Selon Thomas, Perec et Manheim auraient entretenu une « raucous affair » de 1973 à 1981 (voir Perec en Amérique, Brussels, Les Impressions nouvelles, 2019).

3 Cette citation est tirée de coupures de presse colligées dans un dossier disponible à la Cinémathèque québécoise (Samedi 6 décembre 1975, Cahier D, p. 4).

4 Voir Jean-Pierre Tadros, “Les Primitifs ne sont pas ceux qu’on pense,” Le jour, 25 novembre 1975, pp. 10–11 (Cinémathèque québécoise).

5 Germain Lacasse, Le Bonimenteur de vues animées, Montréal, Nota Bene-Méridiens Klincksieck, 2000.

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Dominique Raymond

Dominique Raymond teaches at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. She is the author of Échafaudages, squelettes et patrons de couturière. Essai sur la littérature à contrainte au Québec (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021). Her research focuses on French and Quebecois literature of the twentieth century, particularly as it relates to mathematics and the Oulipo.

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