{"product_id":"9781802078039-bardadrac","title":"Bardadrac","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. ‘Bardadrac’ is the neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little bit of everything in this book: memories of a suburban childhood, a provincial adolescence and early years in Paris marked by a few political commitments; the evocation of great intellectual figures, like Roland Barthes or Jorge Luis Borges; a taste for cities, rivers, women and music, classical or jazz; contingent epiphanies; good or bad ideas; true and false memories; aesthetic biases; geographical reveries; secret or apocryphal quotations; maxims and characters; asides, quips and digressions; reflections on literature and language, with an ironic take on the \u003cem\u003emedialect\u003c\/em\u003e, or dialect of the media; and other surprises.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the intersection, for instance, of Flaubert’s \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Received Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e, Ambrose Bierce’s \u003cem\u003eDevil’s Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, Renard’s \u003cem\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e, Roland Barthes’ \u003cem\u003eRoland Barthes\u003c\/em\u003e and Perec’s \u003cem\u003eI Remember\u003c\/em\u003e, this whimsical abecedarium invites you to stroll and gather.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGérard Genette (1930-2018) was research director at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and visiting professor at Yale University. Cofounder of the journal \u003cem\u003ePoétique\u003c\/em\u003e, he published extensively in the fields of literary theory, poetics and aesthetics, including, in English: \u003cem\u003eNarrative Discourse: An Essay in Method\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), \u003cem\u003eFigures of Literary Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e (1982), \u003cem\u003eFiction and Diction\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eMimologics\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), \u003cem\u003ePalimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eParatexts: Thresholds of Interpretation\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eThe Aesthetic Relation\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), \u003cem\u003eEssays in Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40879673475169,"sku":"9781802078039","price":34.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28640442.jpg?v=1722762986","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781802078039-bardadrac","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}