Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24, Issue 4, Volume 24 (2024), pp. 479-489
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.037.20992Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 21 Issue 4, 2024, pp. 320-332
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.24.037.21269Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 4 Fins du monde , 2013, pp. 109-123
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.13.020.2133
The paper proposes an interpretati on of Michel Houellebecq’s work in the perspecti ve of heroism and victi mizati on, two fundamental, according to J.-M. Apostolidès, categories of the western civilizati on. Referring those categories to Houellebecq’s discussion with contemporary individualism and its crisis, announced by the French intellectualists and called penseurs’68 by L. Ferry and A. Renaut, the author of the paper shows the presence of post-heroic utopias which are manifestati ons of humanism reduced to individual and trivial happiness in Houellebecq’s work. In this context, Houellebecq’s work appears to be a form of resistance against the fall of the great heroic traditi on. Heroism and victi mizati on enable to associate Houellebecq’s work with the
predicament of the retour du sujet (return of the subject) through an ethic of the sacrifi ce as well as a game with Roland Barthes’ concept of the death of the author.
Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Wielogłos, Issue 2 (48) 2021: Teksty konwersyjne, 2021, pp. 41-60
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.21.012.14340Starting with the structuralist and post-structuralist readings of In Search of Lost Time, which perpetuated a certain Proustian myth built around the belief that his life was converted into Text (Roland Barthes, René Girard, Julia Kristeva), the article examines the contemporary discussion on Proust’s biography in relation to an essay by French writer Claude Arnaud. His criticism of the above mentioned myth allows not only to look at the relationship between the life and work of the author of In Search in a new way, but also, above all, it opens new interpretative possibilities that break with the sacralizing view on the writer’s biography and are in line with the contemporary postulates of both the writer’s and the literature’s return to society.
Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk
Cahiers ERTA, Numéro 19, 2019, pp. 41-55
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.19.019.11066The paper discuss the concept of “filiation narratives”, proposed in 1999 by the French theorist Dominique Viart, from the point of view of the “spectacularization of the author” (V. Kaufmann) in the contemporary visual culture. On the one hand, in visual culture, the media visibility of the author seems much important that his work. On the other hand, the strictly narrative understanding of the filiation is no longer possible. The example of the non‐narrative filiation which connect a French writer Patrick Modiano and his daughter, singer et writer Marie Modiano, is proposed to show the resistance of the literature against the abuses of the media’s influence to the literary culture.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9418-5231
Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk holds a PhD degree in Modern French literature and is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interest is focused on literary representations of life, particularly in contemporary French (auto)biographical fiction, as well as representations of the writers (mainly those of Marcel Proust) in literature, media and visual arts. She has published papers devoted to the works of Patrick Modiano, Annie Ernaux, Pierre Michon, Pascal Quignard, Roland Barthes and Michel Schneider. She has also translated into Polish many important works by French authors, including Michel de Certeau and Claude Lévi-Strauss.