D Cohn The Distinction of Fiction

Comptes rendus dans Acta fabula:

• Les indices de fictionalité: une enquête, par Christine Montalbetti.
• Le partage des eaux, par Alexandre Gefen.

Dorrit Cohn, The Distinction of Fiction, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1999.

Table:

Preface
1. Focus on Fiction
2. Fictional versus Historical Lives: Borderlines and Borderline
Cases
3. Freud's Case Histories and the Question of Fictionality
4. Proust's Generic Ambiguity
5. Breaking the Code of Fictional Biography: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's
Marbot
6. "I Doze and Wake": The Deviance of Simultaneous Narration
7. Signposts of Fictionality: A Narratological Perspective
8. The "Second Author" of Death in Venice
9. Pierre and Napoleon at Borodino: Reflections on the Historical
Novel
10. Optics and Power in the Novel

Premières lignes de la préface:
«The "distinction" that my title attributes to fiction is to be
understood in two senses of the word: uniqueness and
differenciation. This study aims to show that fictional narrative
is unique in its potential for crafting a self-enclosed universe
ruled by formal patterns that are ruled out in all other orders of
discourse. This singularity, as I will try to show, depends on
differences that can be precisely identified and systematically
examined.»


Traduction Dorrit Cohn, Le Propre de la fiction, traduit de l'anglais par Claude Hary-Schaeffer, Paris, Le Seuil, coll. "Poétique", septembre 2001. 262 p.

Le renouveau de la narratologie, entretien avec Dorrit Cohn sur le site Vox poetica.