Yourcenar sur les rotules de Caillois
Résumé
“Marguerite Yourcernar sur les rotules de Roger Caillois” [“Marguerite Yourcernar on the Kneecaps of Roger Caillois”], Année zéro [Year Zero], No. 3, Frédéric Sounac (Ed.): “Marguerite Yourcenar”, submitted and accepted, to be published in 2024
This article analyses Marguerite Yourcenar’s acceptance speech to the Académie française, and in particular her praise of Roger Caillois. In a way, Yourcenar imposes a double metamorphosis on her predecessor: she transforms him into his books, but also into the objects he loved so much, stones. In so doing, she develops an innovative theory of literary posterity.