Who’s there : voir Watteau avec Pierre Michon

How can we understand a work when a painter was entirely silent, without any written document, neither published nor private? Watteau’s case is tremendously significant from this point of view. Silent Watteau generated a ghost of his work. This article deals with the spectrum as a vision. Particular...

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Main Author: Alain Viala
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire 2018-06-01
Series:Les Dossiers du GRIHL
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/7064
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description How can we understand a work when a painter was entirely silent, without any written document, neither published nor private? Watteau’s case is tremendously significant from this point of view. Silent Watteau generated a ghost of his work. This article deals with the spectrum as a vision. Particularly through the short novel by Pierre Michon, Je veux me divertir, where Watteau becomes a character as well as Pierrot. Then, the lacks of knowledge of the past are the right places where ghost can find a way to come to haunt memory or memories, through fiction, but as welle through History.
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