Tel Quel

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Tel Quel ( French 'as it is') is a literary criticism movement of the 1960s and 1970s around the magazine of the same name .

Founded in 1960 by Philippe Sollers and Jean-Edern Hallier , the magazine with a literary-critical and avant-garde profile quickly gained in importance. Essential terms of post-structuralism were used here in publications by Michel Foucault , Jacques Derrida , Roland Barthes , Gérard Genette , Julia Kristeva and others. a. Shape.

The authors of Tel Quel approached language and sign systems in general in a way that “does not restrict their plurality of expressions and meaning, but does justice to them, since a liberation of thought and life without a liberation of language” (Kuhn) does not is feasible. The “social transformation”, as Julia Kristeva puts it in The Revolution of Poetic Language , is inseparable from the “linguistic transformation”. When it comes to questions of literary practice, Kristeva emphasizes that they “have to focus on a political horizon”, whereby “ poetry ... meets the foundation of what the order holds: the logic of the language system and the state principle”. Thus the "poetic language is in the social order and against it ...: the last resort to change or subvert it."

The "Kristeva Group" and Tel Quel are concerned with the analysis of prevailing forms of thought. The despotism of the dominant language and its rigor in determining the meaning is revealed. In the course of time, the program of the magazine moved between apolitical aestheticism and communist partisanship. In the language-critical texts of Tel Quel , methods and goals of deconstruction emerge .

The magazine was last published in 1982. Since then, the successor L'Infini has appeared .

bibliography

  • Tel Quel: littérature, philosophie, science, politique. Paris: Ed. du Seuil, 1960–1982.
  • L'Infini: littérature, philosophie, art, science, politique / publ. avec le concours du Center National des Lettres. Paris: Gallimard, 1983.

literature

  • Eva Angerer: Julia Kristeva's literary theory. From Tel Quel to psychoanalysis . Vienna 2006. (Passagen Verlag) ISBN 3-85165-692-X
  • Johannes Angermüller: After structuralism. Theoretical discourse and intellectual field in France. Bielefeld 2007. ISBN 978-3-89942-810-0
  • Irmela Arnsperger: The text theory of the Tel-Quel group. Critical examination of a formalistic conception of literature (dissertation). Berlin 1974.
  • Manuel Asensi Pérez: Los años salvajes de la teoría. Philippe Sollers, Tel Quel y la Génesis del pensamiento post-estructural francés . ISBN 9788484566670
  • Philippe Forest: Histoire de Tel Quel . 1960-1982. Paris 1995.
  • Patrick Ffrench: The Time of Theory. A History of Tel Quel (1960-1983) . Oxford 1995.
  • The Tel Quel Reader . Ed. V. Patrick Ffrench and Roland-Francois Lack. New York 1998.
  • Klaus W. Hempfer: Post-structural text theory and narrative practice. Tel Quel and the constitution of a nouveau nouveau roman . Munich 1976.
  • Niilo Kauppi: The Making of an Avant-garde: Tel Quel . Berlin u. a. 1994 (= Approaches to semiotics, 113).
  • Danielle Marx-Scouras: The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel. Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement . Penn State 1996.
  • Gabriel Kuhn (2005): Becoming an Animal, Becoming Black, Becoming a Woman. An introduction to the political philosophy of post-structuralism . Muenster. ISBN 3-89771-441-8
  • Vincent Descombes: The Same and the Other. Forty-five years of philosophy. 1933-1978 . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1981. (p. 151f)
  • Julia Kristeva: The Revolution of Poetic Language . Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp 1978.

Movie

  • Julia Kristeva. Documentary, France 2005, directed by François Caillat. First broadcast: December 2, 2005. arte

References and comments

  1. ^ Jean-Pierre Faye was not a founding member, but a member of the editorial committee from 1963 to 1967. cf. Tel Quel No. 43 (autumn 1970), p. 89 f.