Poétique de Georges Perec. Jacques-Denis Bertharion. Paris: Librairie Nizet (1998). French Review, vol. 76.1 (Oct. 2002): 138-9.

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Review Reviewed Work(s): Poétique de Georges Perec by Jacques-Denis Bertharion Review by: Michel Sirvent Source: The French Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Oct., 2002), pp. 138-139 Published by: American Association of Teachers of French Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132667 Accessed: 02-10-2016 21:00 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

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Quelque vingt ans apres la disparition de Georges Pere

compte plus les hommages A l'auteur de La Vie, mode d'empl Veritable jongleur de mots, Perec est pour beaucoup l'auteu pogamme de la litterature mondiale, La Disparition (1969), un l'emploi de la lettre la plus frequente de la langue franqais Perec appartient desormais au pantheon litteraire, la vaste jouit son oeuvre aujourd'hui est un phenomene recent. W ou (1975) ne s'est vendu A l'apoque qu'a moins de 3500 exempla aucune refkrence a Perec dans A New History of French Lit 1989). Ainsi, entre les travaux des d fricheurs, dont Bernar premier grand colloque de Cerisy en 1984 (Cahiers Georges P volumineux essai de Manet Van Montfrans paru chez Rodop Perec: la contrainte du rdel), s'est declare la gloire. Le nume monographie de Claude Burgelin, Georges Perec (1988), initi connaissance critique jalonne ensuite par La Mimoire et l'obl Lejeune consacre a la genese de W ou le souvenir d'enfance, ducteur anglais, David Bellos (Georges Perec: A Life in Word

nombreux numeros speciaux de revues comme Etudes li

Review of Contemporary Fiction (1993), Le Magazine litteraire (

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ajoute depuis le Georges Perec de B. Magne (1999), introducti accessible parue chez Nathan/Universit&. Ce dernier n'est d pour l'essai de Bertharion: "Un travail un peu trop impertu

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Certes, Poetique de Georges Perec est, a l'image de son objet D'un c6td, le commentaire est dense, tr s au fait de la critiq la theorie poststructuraliste. Ainsi, la partie intitulee "De l (121-83) sur Un Cabinet d'amateur, La Vie, mode d'emploi et "53 faitement aux ceuvres, surtout pour ce dernier roman, ina (1989). L'interet majeur de l'essai est d'aborder des textes c dort (1967) et "53 jours" relativement peu etudies jusqu'ici. moins convaincante est la these qui enferme l'euvre dans u

ment biocentrique. Qu'il s'agisse d'envisager Un Homme

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edited by Gervais E. Reed BEN JELLOUN, TAHAR. Cette aveuglante absence de lumiere. Paris: Seuil, 2001. ISBN 2-02041777-4. Pp. 229. 16.77 E.

For their role in a failed coup d'etat against King Hassan II of Morocco in 1971, fifty-eight soldiers spent eighteen years in prison cells too small for them to stand

erect and too dark to see the substance that passed as food, barely keeping them alive until insalubrious conditions brought slow and painful death. When word leaked to the international community and pressure forced Hassan to open the doors of these medieval oubliettes, only twenty-eight remained. Cette aveuglante absence de lumiere was inspired by the account of one of the survivors. Controversy has surrounded this novel because some feel that Ben Jelloun failed to speak up while others fought to free the prisoners of Tazmamart. One of his sharpest critics has been Ahmed Marzouki, whose timoignage, Tazmamart. Cellule 10 (Paris-Mediterranee, 2000) appeared almost simultaneously with the novel.

Ben Jelloun has spent considerable time defending himself in the media.

Whatever political or personal subtexts might exist for Ben Jelloun and his critics regarding this sordid episode in Moroccan history, the novel must ultimately be read and judged on its literary merits. Ben Jelloun's familiar poetic voice, rich with lyrical imagery, is largely absent from Cette aveuglante absence de lumiere. The beauty of a text such as this must come from elsewhere-in this case, from the hauntingly unadorned account of the interior fortitude of a man struggling to retain a semblance of dignity while preserving a mind and body subjected to incredible physical abuse and psychological

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