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Introduction
‘Non vraiment’
Possible truth to be discovered
‘c’est parfait’ – affirmation
‘On’
Personal / impersonal
Question the identity of the characters
Position and role of the reader
‘on aurait beau chercher’; ‘on ne pourrait rien trouver à redire’
Searching
Saying and denying – put into question the possibilities of language
Ellipsis
‘…’
Suspension in time and thought
Fragmentation in language, movement
Inability of language to fix thought
Inconsistency of the characters to hold on to one thought
‘une surprise’, ‘une chance’
Accidental nature of life, process of discovery
‘une harmonie exquise’
Strive for an impossible perfection
Material world
‘ce rideau de velours’
Material objects
‘velours’: ‘très epais’, ‘de laine de première qualité’, d’un vert profond,
sobre et discret’, ‘d’un ton chaud’
Description
‘cette tache […] ils ont fait des taches partout […] c’est
impossible d’effacer ça […] il faut réussir à tout prix… là… ne
pas frotter… appuyer doucement… l’eau savonneuse imprègne
lentement… Elle attend… elle soulève le mouchoir mouillé…
miracle… ça s’est effacé, la tache a disparu […] personne n’y
verra rien’
Concealment and revelation
Title
Le Planétarium
Planet – from Latin planeta, ‘wanderer’
Two movements (around itself and around the star)
Isolation and community (relation to the star it rotates around and the other
planets)
Tension between individual and universal; enclosed space and infinite
expanse
Macroscopic and microscopic
Liberating and claustrophobic
The smallest events take on the biggest proportions (life-and-death struggles)
Life and language
Tension between natural and artificial
Tensions and themes
Language and reality
Tension between the immobilizing power of words and the fluidity of
life experience
Show language’s potential for fluidity:
A-grammaticality, fragmented punctuation, repetitions, reformulations
Explore the area of preverbal psychological reality