Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Youthful Writings
- 2 Photographic Writing
- 3 Towards the Novel
- 4 Image and Text
- 5 The ‘Novel’
- 6 ‘Autobiography’
- 7 Towards the Roman Faux
- 8 The Roman Faux
- 9 Thanatographical Writing
- 10 The Fictitious, the Fake or the Delirious
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Notes to Chapter One
- Notes to Chapter Two
- Notes to Chapter Three
- Notes to Chapter Four
- Notes to Chapter Five
- Notes to Chapter Six
- Notes to Chapter Seven
- Notes to Chapter Eight
- Notes to Chapter Nine
- Notes to Chapter Ten
- Notes to Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Notes
4 - Image and Text
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Youthful Writings
- 2 Photographic Writing
- 3 Towards the Novel
- 4 Image and Text
- 5 The ‘Novel’
- 6 ‘Autobiography’
- 7 Towards the Roman Faux
- 8 The Roman Faux
- 9 Thanatographical Writing
- 10 The Fictitious, the Fake or the Delirious
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Notes to Chapter One
- Notes to Chapter Two
- Notes to Chapter Three
- Notes to Chapter Four
- Notes to Chapter Five
- Notes to Chapter Six
- Notes to Chapter Seven
- Notes to Chapter Eight
- Notes to Chapter Nine
- Notes to Chapter Ten
- Notes to Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Notes
Summary
Since L'Homme blessé served as point of departure for Guibert in his quest towards the novel, this chapter begins with a study of that experiment and links it with the text ‘Les escarpins rouges’, which tells the story of the writing of L'Homme blessé and provides us with important information about the process of literary creation. Les Lubies d'Arthur is the first of Guibert's books to bear the subtitle ‘roman’ (‘novel’), so I will be asking if this text, which was to have been issued in instalments with illustrations, is really a novel, and linking it to a text entitled ‘L'Ours’ (PA, pp. 139–48), which tells how Les Lubies d'Arthur came to be written. I will then turn to the texts in La Piqûre d'amour et autres textes suivi de La chair fraîche published in 1982 and 1983 to see if their analysis reflects the writer's preoccupations and tallies with the Guibertian thematic. Since in Le Seul Visage and Lettres d'Égypte we have two different ways of combining image and text, I shall be asking if these two projects lead Guibert away from the novel or whether, on the contrary, they share the same perspective as the other books. So as to make my study more synthetic, I will be analysing the last three works together.
L'HOMME BLESSÉ
L'Homme blessé is a film script written by Hervé Guibert and Patrice Chéreau and published by Minuit in 1983. The book is subtitled ‘Scénario et notes’ (‘Scenario and Notes’) and begins with the scenario (HB, pp. 9–150) which is then followed by notes (pp. 151–99). The film, which represented France at the Cannes film festival in 1984, is the story of a young man, Henri, who lives in a stifling family. One evening, he meets Jean in a station and becomes obsessed with him. It is not made clear whether Jean is involved with drugs or prostitution, but he drags Henri into some strange adventures.
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- Hervé GuibertVoices of the Self, pp. 101 - 122Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999