Saturday, January 10, 2009

Pascale Casanova

Du jour au lendemain (1/6)

La république mondiale des lettres

"This world republic of letters has its Greenwich meridian, to which the newness and modernity of works are measured.
This is the story literary revolutionaries who managed to invent their freedom as writers by creating new forms. The texts of Kafka, Joyce, Faulkner or Beckett, but also Arno Schmidt, Mario de Andrade, ibsen, Kateb yacine, Ramuz, Michaux, Cioran, Naipaul, Juan Benet, Danilo Kiš, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and many other "ex-centric" writers."