What is it about?
This article is about Quignard's thoughts on narrative. Every narrative is a hunt, he says., which means animal predation is the matrix of human competence of telling stories. This is one of the lines of Quignard's critique of humanism. His reflections on the derivation of narration from the polarity predator-prey shape a reinterpretation of narrative semiotics that goes back to anthropogenesis (seen not as a cut wih the animal world but rather as a continuity and a overflow .
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Why is it important?
Quignard's reflections on narration and predation are an important contribution to the ongoing debate about what human is becoming and how to reconsider it in a close relationship with non human beings (animals and machines). The originality of his critique of humanism is an important feature on the issue of human animality.
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I have been studying Quignard's redefinition of the human phenomenon and the vital dynamics of its generation for many years. This the most recent work of a series that include for instance: Prédation et violence fondatrice. La chasse dans la réinterprétation par Pascal Quignard de la théorie mimétique-sacrificielle (L'esprit créateur, 52, 2012); Jadis, dans le commencement la parole n’était pas. Sacré, anthropogenèse et animalité humaine chez Pascal Quignard (Çédille, 15, 2019) ; Penser la différence anthropologique : une lecture croisée de Quignard et Bimbenet (French Forum, 44, 2019). Quignard's insights on literary writing as « mise au silence du langage » are to be studied in connection with the issue of human animality.
Professor Cristina Álvares
Universidade do Minho
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This page is a summary of: Narration et prédation: Pascal Quignard et la théorie cynégétique du récit, Semiotica, February 2021, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0055.
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