TXT (literary magazine)

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TXT is a French avant-garde - literary magazine , by 1969 bis 1993 appeared.

The literary magazine TXT (French Revue TXT) was founded in 1969 by Christian Prigent and Jean-Luc Steinmetz in Rennes in the context of the Tel Quel magazine published by Philippe Sollers from 1960 to 1982 , which was a platform for post-structuralist thought , and with changing editorial committees from Prigent until 1993. A total of 31 issues were published, including 4 double issues and 4 special editions, initially by own publishing house TXT Rennes (issues 1–8 and 31), from 1977 under the umbrella of various publishers: Christian Bourgois Paris (issue 9–13), Limage Paris (issue 14 –16), Lebeer-Hossmann Brussels (issue 17–29 / 30). She offered a voice to a new generation of young authors. From 1977 it was flanked by a series of the same name, in which works by authors considered difficult or subversive were published, including Valère Novarina , Welimir Chlebnikow , Philippe Muray , Jean-Pierre Verheggen or Christian Prigent himself.

The positions of the TXT authors were shaped by the post-structuralist linguistics of Kristeva , the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan , the grammatology of Jacques Derrida and dialectical materialism . Her avant-garde slogans in the wake of Georges Bataille's hatred of poetry were: "La poésie: merde pour ce mot!" ( German "The poetry: Fuck the word!") ( Francis Ponge ), "La poésie est inadmissible, d'ailleurs elle n'existe pas" (German "The poetry is unacceptable, by the way it doesn't exist") ( Denis Roche ). Accordingly, there was a preference for difficult authors or those designated as "illisible" (German illegible), since the theoretical level was about a new definition of what "read" means.

Texts by around one hundred and forty French-speaking authors were printed, over sixty foreign-language authors translated, including the Austrians Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker , the Romanian-German Oskar Pastior and the German Bert Papenfuß-Gorek , musicians such as Pierre Boulez , Vinko Globokar , Marc Monnet were involved , Painters , photographers and performers ( Philippe Boutibonnes , Pierre Buraglio , Mathias Pérez , Daniel Dezeuze , Jean Dubuffet , Bernard Dufour , Joël Hubaut , Jean-Paul Thibeau , Claude Viallat and others). Despite this diversity, there was a common anti-poetic and anti- academic line , with a tendency to carnivalesque in the sense of Rabelai and Bakhtin , without concessions to any literary restoration and convention , coupled with the requirement to justify one's own art theoretically.

literature

  • TXT 1969-1993 (une anthologie) . Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1995.
  • Fabrice Thumerel: Passage des avant-gardes à TXT (conversation with Christian Prigent). In: Francis Marcoin, Fabrice Thumerel: Manières de critiquer . Crelid, Artois Presses Université, 2001, pp. 211-238.
  • Christian Prigent: Ne me faites pas dire ce que je n'écris pas (conversations with Hervé Castanet). Cadex (Coll. David), Portiragnes, 2004, ISBN 978-2-913-38850-5 .
  • Robert Sabatier: Histoire de la poésie française - Poésie du XXe siècle (Volume 3). Albin Michel, Paris, 1988, chap. 9 ( Christian Prigent et TXT ), ISBN 978-2-226-29901-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TXT 1969-1993 (une anthologie) . Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1995.
  2. ↑ a b TXT (1969-1993) at revues-litteraires.com , accessed February 3, 2017
  3. ↑ a b L'aventure TXT, par Fabrice Thumerel at blogspot.com , accessed on February 3, 2017