Vukušić Zorica, Maja.
(2016).
Criticism and violence - Chevillard and Nisard.
Književna smotra, 179(1).
pp. 69-79.
ISSN 0455-0463
Abstract
Taking its cue from the polemic between Éric
Chevillard and Mariane Bury about Chevillard’s novel
Demolish Nisard that the author will comment on in
his book Authour and Me and extending it to the polemic
between Nisard himself and the famous Sainte-
Beuve, this case study shows that the specific relationship
between Chevillard and Nisard raises the
question of criticism and violence. Criticism as violence
is here summarized into a witty, humorous,
ironic and sardonic answer; a non-serious reading of
literature and criticism; a joyful exercise of demolishment;
a satire of academism of any sort. A “book
about nothing” as a “book about everything”, as the
author puts it, emphasizes that every reading is a kind
of disfiguration, distortion, mutilation; nevertheless,
the reader should have more faith in the powers of
the negative by embracing, not any form of reconcilability,
but a hostile reading (“lire en ennemi”).
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