Reality effects: reality and writing in Roland Barthes
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0ispep111-114Keywords:
Reality effect, Roland Barthes, Concrete Detail, Realism, Representation.Abstract
The present paper aims to discuss Roland Barthes’ essayistic production during the 1960s decade. The analytical argument is developed from “The reality effect”, a 1968 Barthes’ essay, passing through the critical notion of particularity and concrete detail. The background concerns the realistic theories from the nineteenth century presented in the emblematic 1965 text, “Le roman et l’expérience des limites”, by Phillipe Sollers, in which the realism is comprehended as a loss suffered by the writing gesture for it represents something external of the text itself. Reality, as regarded in this paper, is questioned and posed as a textual instance that tackles the problematics of reference and of the mimetic projects of the reality transposition.
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