From one revolution to another:
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This article examines the convergent or divergent ways in which two “Marxist” or “post-Marxist” philosophers, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, have read Balzac, from A Theory of Literary Production (Macherey 1966) to The Edges of Fiction (Rancière 2017). It seeks both to position these “philosophical” readings in relation to the perspectives of Marx or György Lukács, and to identify the features of the Balzacian text that they represent. After outlining the conflicts of logic and writing regimes that, according to our philosophers, produce the Balzacian novel, our article focuses on the nature of the formal revolution that the novel testfies to, according to them. Finally, a comparative and broader assessment allows us to characterize the readings of Macherey and Rancière, and the way in which they redefine the Balzacian text—how it functions and how it achieves its sensory, cognitive, and political effects.
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