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“Introduction. Des amitiés en train de se défaire”

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“Introduction. Des amitiés en train de se défaire” [“Introduction. Friendships in the Process of Unravelling”], Régine Battiston, Nikol Dziub and Augustin Voegele (Eds.), L’Inimitié dans les correspondances d’écrivains [Enmity in Writers’ Correspondence], Reims, Éditions et Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2023, p. 9-24. (Symposium. University of Haute-Alsace, 25-26/11/2021.) What is hatred? This volume does not attempt to answer this question. Why not? Because we will be talking about literary hatreds, and literature teaches us not only that a feeling has as many nuances as there are terms to describe it, but also that an infinite number of intermediate tones slip in between the words; or to put it another way: that the spectrum covered by a feeling like hatred is not made up of a series of distinct colours, but is composed of a sort of continuous gradation. We have not, moreover, chosen the term “hatred” to subsume all the varieties of hostile feelings we are concerned with. Why not? Because this volume follows on from another that dealt with epistolary friendships between writers, in which we noted that there are few friendships that do not threaten, at some point in their development, to turn to detestation (some, in fact, are nourished by this constant risk they run). And because letter-writers can only write to each other with malice if the antagonism is seasoned with at least a hint of friendly attachment. We therefore preferred the term inimitié, whose etymology speaks for itself, since it comes from the Latin inimicitia (hatred), derived from inimicus (enemy), itself derived from amicus (friend), to which a negative prefix has been added.
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Augustin Voegele, Régine Battiston, Nikol Dziub. “Introduction. Des amitiés en train de se défaire”. L’Inimitié dans les correspondances d’écrivains, EPURE, 2023. ⟨halshs-04267119⟩
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