Of biographical empathy. Real, fiction and imagination in the writing of “insignificant lives”
Regard, Frédéric
Of biographical empathy. Real, fiction and imagination in the writing of “insignificant lives” - 2021.
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Both Emmanuel Carrère’s D’autres vies que la mienne (2009) and Ivan Jablonka’s Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes (2016) sought to retrieve “insignificant lives” from their invisibility and inaudibility. In order to achieve this, their respective accounts chose to adopt a specific strategy, empathy. This implied that the two authors had to use the art of story-telling to project themselves, through the work of the imagination, into the lives of others. This article studies how Carrère and Jablonka used similar narrative techniques while nevertheless constructing different ethical images of themselves. Or rather, fictions of themselves, embedded in a real awaiting reconfiguration.
Of biographical empathy. Real, fiction and imagination in the writing of “insignificant lives” - 2021.
66
Both Emmanuel Carrère’s D’autres vies que la mienne (2009) and Ivan Jablonka’s Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes (2016) sought to retrieve “insignificant lives” from their invisibility and inaudibility. In order to achieve this, their respective accounts chose to adopt a specific strategy, empathy. This implied that the two authors had to use the art of story-telling to project themselves, through the work of the imagination, into the lives of others. This article studies how Carrère and Jablonka used similar narrative techniques while nevertheless constructing different ethical images of themselves. Or rather, fictions of themselves, embedded in a real awaiting reconfiguration.
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