"Petits traités", thésaurus d'une œuvre. (French)

"Petits traités", the thesaurus of a work. (English)

I propose that Petits traités be considered the thesaurus of Pascal Quignard's œuvre, in which the main elements of his style combine into a first original and recognizable expression: a fragmentary form, the appearance of a lexicon that will become inseparable from his works, the affirmation of a theory of literature as rooted in ancient, animal gestures, the intrication of the speculative and the narrative, the exploration of literary and cultural memory, the preoccupation with origins. I show that Petits traités resonates with just about every book that follows, and I argue that the memory thus activated functions in a musical manner in the author and in the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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