Author: Rossum-Guyon, Françoise van.
Title: Le coeur critique. Butor, Simon, Kristeva, Cixous.
Description: Amsterdam & Atlanta, Rodopi, 1997. 247,[1] pp. Orig. hardcover (red boards, gilt lettered on spine). (InterActions, 3).French text. - A common thread runs through the chapters of this book, the conviction that literature, when it is true, is also political. The studies and interviews brought together in this volume attempt to discern and show what, in the works of Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, produces meanings that change our representations. From reflection on the powers and limits of the novel to the consideration of sexual difference in textual production, it is the work of writers that reveals and gives rise to new issues. Formal experiments and theoretical novelties respond to the need to transmit and transmute a human experience: war, exile, mourning, love. One way or another, these writers bring us into the heart scene. Their works are deeply rooted in biographical and historical reality and that is why they concern our life and our history.

Keywords: Literature Letterkunde