This book seeks to develop a novel approach to literature beyond
the conventional divide between realism/formalism and
history/aestheticism. It accomplishes this not only through a
radical reassessment of the specificity of literature in
distinction from one of its others-namely, philosophy-but above all
by taking critical issue with the venerable concept of the "text"
and its association with the artisanal techniques of weaving and
interlacing. This conception of the text as an artisanal fabric is,
the author holds, the unreflected presupposition of both realist,
or historicist, and reflective, or "deconstructive," criticism.
Gasche argues that "the scenes of production" within literary
works, created by their authors yet independent of those authors'
intentions, stage a work's own production in virtual fashion and
thus accomplish for those works a certain ideal ontological status
that allows for both historical endurance and creative
interpretation. In Gasche's construction of these scenes, in which
literary works render visible within their own fabric the invisible
conditions of their autonomous existence, certain images prevail:
the fold, the star, the veil. By showing that these literary images
are not simply the opposites of concepts, he not only puts into
question the common opposition between literature and philosophy
but shows that literary works perform a way of "argumentation"
that, in spite of all its difference from philosophical
conceptuality, is on a par with it. The argument progresses through
close readings of literary works by Lautreamont, Nerval, de l'Isle
Adam, Huysman, Flaubert, Artaud, Blanchot, Defoe, and Melville.
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