Commentary on Groethuysen’s death in Luxembourg
Bernard Groethuysen Jean Paulhan Jean Dubuffet
Fabula, Marc Escola, 3 mai 2023
"On the roads of the immediate postwar period, the most common car incident is a flat tire. But Dubuffet's rattletrap does not have very reliable mechanics. A clatter of dishes sets in. Where can it be coming from?"
This hybrid narrative, presented as fragments and interwoven narrative threads, unfolds around a real event: the car trip made by writer Jean Paulhan and his friend, painter Jean Dubuffet, in September 1946, between Paris and Luxembourg. The conversation between the two friends lets elements of the postwar landscape emerge, as well as things left unsaid, more or less concealed, memories, apprehensions. Of course it touches on language and literature, but that is not the essential point.
Struck by Mort de Groethuysen a Luxembourg (Fata Morgana, 1976), the narrative Paulhan wrote on his return to Paris, Louis Jacob revisits that journey as if for the first time.
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Louis Jacob is a professor in the sociology department at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, where he teaches major approaches and the fundamental notions of the discipline. He is a member of the Observatoire des mediations culturelles and the Art et societe, terrains et theories laboratory.
Montreal, Liber, "Anekdota" series, 2023
EAN: 9782895787822
182 pages
Price: 20 EUR
Publication date: 3 May 2023