Publication details
L'auteur est mort, vivent les personnages! La notion de liberté a travers les jeux narratifs de la simulation et de la dissimulation dans La septieme fonction du langage de L. Binet
| Title in English | The Author is Dead, Live the Characters! The Conception of Freedom through Plays of Simulation and Dissimuation in La septieme fonction du langage de Laurent Binet |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Echo des études romanes |
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| Web | https://www.eer.cz/files/2017-2/2017-2-02-Vurm.pdf |
| Keywords | Binet; Roland Barthes; simulation; dissimulation; death of the author; literary character; narrative plays; simulated reality |
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| Description | The paper deals with the simulation and dissimulation of reality, as well as the consequences of the death of the author suggested by Roland Barthes, in the novel La septieme fonction du langage by Laurent Binet. The novel itself doesn’t fit any precise subgeneric category, standing on the border between a detective and/or spy novel, semiological quest, parody of the intelligentsia of the French theory. Through our analyses, we purport to demonstrate that the author/narrator can (dis)simulate a liberation of the main character from his own "tutelage". The theory of simulated reality is also approched towards the end of the paper. |