'Un grand coup de pied dans le château de cubes': Formal experimentation in Marie Darrieussecq's bref séjour chez les Vivants

Modern Language Review

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-67

  Jordan, Shirley ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (42)

1. See e.g. Women's Writing in Contemporary France, ed. by Gill Rye and Michael Worton (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002)
2. Nouvelles écrivaines, nouvelles voix?, ed. by Nathalie Morello and Catherine Rodgers (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002)
3. Colette Sarrey-Strack, Fictions contemporains au féminin (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002)
4. Shirley Jordan, Contemporary French Women's Writing: Women's Visions, Women's Voices, Women's Lives (forthcoming in the Modern French Identities series with Peter Lang)
5. To date there is no book-length study of Darrieussecq's writing and only a limited number of scholarly articles or book chapters. The latter category includes: Isabelle Favre, 'Marie Darrieussecq ou lard de la calorie vide', Women in French Studies, 8 (2000), 164-76
6. Shirley Jordan, 'Saying the Unsayable: Identities in Crisis in the Early Novels of Marie Darrieussecq'.in Rye and Worton, pp. 142-56
7. Catherine Rodgers, 'Aucune évidence: les Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq', Romance Studies, 18 (2000), 69-81
8. Catherine Rodgers, ' "Entrevoir l'absence des bords du monde" dans les romans de Marie Darrieussecq', in Morello and Rodgers, pp. 83-103
9. Marion Sadoux, 'Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes: Hesitating between Fantasy and Truth', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 7 (1999), 197-203
10. Bref séjour chez les vivants (Paris: POL, 2001) is a family drama seen through the eyes of four women
11. Le Bébé (Paris: POL, 2002) is a notebook of impressions about (and produced during) early motherhood
12. In interview with Alain Nicolas, Darrieussecq proclaims: 'En tant qu'écrivain, je donne un grand coup de pied dans le château de cubes et j'essaie de le reconstruire différemment' ('Marie et les cerveaux', L'Humanité, 13 September 2001, p. 8)
13. For critics who lament the contamination of the canonical by popular culture, the mass media, and consumerism, see Pierre Jourde, La Littérature sans estomac (Paris: L'Esprit des Péninsules, 2002)
14. Michel Waldberg, La Parole putainisée (Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 2002)
15. 'Un Chantier de sensations', Le Point, 31 August 2001, p. 23
16. Ina joint interview with Laure Adler. Adler discusses the loss of her son while Darrieussecq confirms the autobiographical underpinning of her work, hinting at the death of a younger brother by drowning, and referring to the ways in which she negotiates the tensions between self and family, speech and silence, to articulate his absence in her writing. See François Busnel and Thierry Gandillot, 'Rencontre', L'Express, 23 August 2001, p. 12
17. Francis Ponge, Méthodes (Paris: Gallimard, 1971), p. 20
18. Darrieussecq's explicit comparison between her own Le Bébé and Ponge's notebook Le Savon (Paris: Gallimard, 1967)
19. is worth further investigation (see Fabrice Gaignault, 'Rencontre avec Marie Darrieussecq: l'incroyable monsieur bébé', Marie Claire, April 2002, pp. 29-30)
20. Antoine de Gaudemar, 'Darrieussecq, du cochon au volatil', Libération (Livres), 26 February 1998, pp. i-iii (p. iii)
21. Jérôme Garcin, 'Marie Darrieussecq: l'après Truismes', Le Nouvel Observateur, 19-25 February 1998, pp. 88-90 (p. 90)
22. Sébastien Le Fol, 'Marie Darrieussecq: mélo dame', Le Figaro, 30 August 2001, p. 10
23. Nicolas, 'Marie et les cerveaux'
24. See Woolf's seminal essay 'Modern Fiction' in The Essays of Virginia Woolf, ed. by Andrew McNeillie (London: Hogarth, 1986), pp. 103-10 (p. 106)
25. François Nourissier, 'Darrieussecq, à sa façon cruelle et douce', Figaro Magazine, 20 October 2001, p. 29
26. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
27. (London: Penguin, 1992)
28. Mrs Dalloway, p. 7
29. Jean-Pierre Tison, 'Marie Darrieussecq: l'écriture pour toujours', Lire, October 2001, pp. 33-34 (p. 34)
30. or V. S. Ramachandran's 2003 Reith Lectures (The Emerging Mind: The BBC Reith Lectures 2003 (London: Profile Books, 2004))
31. coincide with further forays into the issue of consciousness in the novel (e.g. David Lodge, Consciousness in the Novel (London: Secker & Warburg, 2002))
32. Jacques Roubaud and Maurice Bernard, Quel avenir pour la mémoire? (Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1998)
33. Thierry Delorme, La Douleur: un mal à combattre (Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1999)
34. L. Roth, R. Bellour, and P. Cassagnau Qu 'est-ce qu 'une madeleine? A propos du cd-rom immemory (Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 1997), described by the author as 'un curieux petit livre de Laurent Roth et Raymond Bellour, très joli, sur le CD-Rom de Chris Marker, Immemory'
35. Tison, 'Marie Darrieussecq: l'écriture pour toujours', p. 34
36. See Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London: Penguin, 2000). The quatrième de couverture of Bref séjour ends: 'Nous sommes dans leur cerveau. | Il y a un fantôme.'
37. Consciousness in the Novel, p. 63
38. Nourissier, 'Darrieussecq, à sa façon cruelle et douce'
39. Patrick Kéchichian, 'Roman, état limite', Le Monde, 31 August 2001, p. 18
40. Julia Roberts's walk (p. 162)
41. De Gaudemar, 'Darrieussecq, du cochon au volatil', p. iii
42. Poétiques de la voix (Paris: José Corti, 1999), pp. 280-81