Here is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and
time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. ‘Bardadrac’ is the
neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled
contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little
bit of everything in this book: memories of a suburban childhood, a
provincial adolescence and early years in Paris marked by a few
political commitments; the evocation of great intellectual figures,
like Roland Barthes or Jorge Luis Borges; a taste for cities,
rivers, women and music, classical or jazz; contingent epiphanies;
good or bad ideas; true and false memories; aesthetic biases;
geographical reveries; secret or apocryphal quotations; maxims and
characters; asides, quips and digressions; reflections on
literature and language, with an ironic take on the medialect, or
dialect of the media; and other surprises. At the intersection, for
instance, of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas, Ambrose
Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, Renard’s Journal, Roland
Barthes’ Roland Barthes and Perec’s I Remember, this whimsical
abecedarium invites you to stroll and gather. Gérard Genette
(1930-2018) was research director at the École des hautes études
en sciences sociales in Paris, and visiting professor at Yale
University. Cofounder of the journal Poétique, he published
extensively in the fields of literary theory, poetics and
aesthetics, including, in English: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in
Method (1980), Figures of Literary Discourse (1982), Fiction and
Diction (1993), Mimologics (1995), Palimpsests: Literature in the
Second Degree (1997), Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation
(1997), The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence (1997), The
Aesthetic Relation (1999), Essays in Aesthetics (2005).
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