November 15, 2018
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Susanna Alessandrelli, « Entre autobiographisme et autogenèse du texte, Le Vent Paraclet de Michel Tournier », Revue italienne d’études françaises, ID : 10.4000/rief.2631
With Le Vent Paraclet, Michel Tournier creates a work of art which lies halfway between an autobiographical and an essayistic discourse. As the text builds upon a double register, entailing a mixture of personal anecdotes and commentary, the narrative voice assumes an objective stance only to further blur the boundaries between critical metadiscourse and fiction. This paper aims to highlight how Le Vent Paraclet, although referring to Barthes’s theory of the “death of the author”, ends up revealing the writer’s drive towards self-expression, which constantly exceeds the project of the ironic self-denial of the critic.