Terror and rhetoric: Giraudoux, Sartre, Blanchot (Tokyo)
Fabula, Gilles Philippe, 21 septembre 2023
From October 14, 2023 to October 15, 2023
At Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo
Almost 80 years ago, Jean Giraudoux died suddenly, a playwright and novelist then at the height of his fame. In the years preceding his death, Sartre and Blanchot, still young authors, devoted significant articles to his work - in Situations, I and in Faux Pas - where the question of language and trust in it was raised. In the background, one could sense Paulhan's questions expressed at the same period in Les Fleurs de Tarbes.
This conference will be an opportunity to ask what place Giraudoux's work occupies in these reflections, and to explore the questionings that led Sartre and Blanchot, in dialogue with his work and also with Paulhan's, to define their own position toward language.
Speakers: Yukie MASE (Miyagigakuin Univ.), Noriko NAKAMURA (Konan Univ.), Seigo TANOKUCHI (International Christian University), Vincent BRANCOURT (Keio Univ.), Andre JOB (emeritus upper-level chair professor), Nao SAWADA (Rikkyo Univ.), Gilles PHILIPPE (Univ. of Lausanne), Io WATANABE (Keio Univ.), Takashi ICHIKAWA (Keio Univ.), Kai GOHARA (Univ. of Tokyo), Kazuya TSUKIYAMA (Keio Univ.), Christophe BIDENT (Univ. of Picardie)
Moderators: Seigo TANOKUCHI, Yukie MASE, Takashi ICHIKAWA, Nao SAWADA.
Program
▶ Saturday, October 14: 2:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
2:00 p.m.: Opening of the conference
Around Giraudoux
- Theater Moderator: Seigo TANOKUCHI
2:10 p.m. Yukie MASE "The contemporary significance of Pour Lucrece and La Folle de Chaillot - buried possibility within darkness"
2:50 p.m. Noriko NAKAMURA "Reflections on the comparison between Giraudoux's Electre and Sartre's Les Mouches"
- Languages Moderator: Yukie MASE
3:50 p.m. Seigo TANOKUCHI "Language, propaganda, and cinema: relations between Giraudoux's conception of language and his film works"
4:30 p.m. Vincent BRANCOURT "The temptation of limit-experience: female figures and frontiers of identity in Giraudoux's theater"
5:10 p.m. Andre JOB "Giraudoux: a rhetoric 'free of doubts and anxieties' (C. E. Magny)?"
▶ Sunday, October 15: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Terror and rhetoric
Moderator: Takashi ICHIKAWA
10:00 a.m. Nao SAWADA
"Terrorism according to Sartre: from surrealism to negritude"
10:40 a.m. Gilles PHILIPPE "Anatomy of a failure: Sartre between Paulhan and Blanchot (1945-1952)"
11:20 a.m. Io WATANABE "Brice Parain and Jean Paulhan: debate on the 'power of words'"
12:00 p.m.: Break
Moderator: Nao SAWADA (Rikkyo Univ.)
1:30 p.m. Kai GOHARA "Vibration and volatilization of the cliche - Paulhan at Blanchot's beginning"
2:10 p.m. Takashi ICHIKAWA "Freedom or death: two meanings of 'Terror' in Blanchot"
2:50 p.m. Kazuya TSUKIYAMA "Maurice Blanchot's literary chronicles: Lautreamont and the problems of the novel"
3:30 p.m. Christophe BIDENT "Blanchot, Giraudoux, Sartre: history of sensibility"
4:10 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. Round table and general discussion (*with simultaneous translation)
6:00 p.m. Closing of the conference
Organizer:
Japanese Society of French Language and Literature
Reference URL:
https://www.mfjtokyo.or.jp/fr/events/co-sponsored/20231014.html
Address:
Maison franco-japonaise, Tokyo