The Counter-Order of Simulacra: Alan Duff’s gut novel, Once Were Warriors by Christian Gutleben

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Le Traité des délits de Joseph-Pierre Chassan : une nouvelle source pour L’Éducation sentimentale  by Biagio Magaudda

“…However, the analysis of the notes taken by Flaubert on Chassan's work and the rereading of the writer's historical novel highlight common aspects that deserve to be deepened: we will see that the Traité des délits, a little-known work, plays a crucial role in the elaboration of a speech by Frédéric in L'Éducation sentimentale and is now added to the long list of works consulted by the writer for the preparation of his novel.…”
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La poétique de la pierre dans l'œuvre de Thomas Hardy : du livre de pierre au livre de vie by Annie Escuret

“…Tess feels « at home » only at the end, on the warm slab at Stonehenge, because the pagan tomb is the only place where she can find rest and sleep.In a word, Hardy uses stones to build up his own distinction between the figurative (which refers to the classical, mimetic aesthetic) and the figural (which refers to writing as play), between the Word made flesh (when the relation of meaning to the world is one of transcendence) and when the idea is never made carnally present at all (because a novel is first of all an event of writing). In La Parole muette (1998), Rancière insists on the paradoxes of literary representation as novels seem to indicate an embodied world that is forever awaiting embodiment, a liminal world which reminds us of Derrida's concept of the « spectral ». …”
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