Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss and Victor Segalen share the same obsession, that of the loss of knowledge, established by the law of thermodynamics as a universal constant. In fact, the journeys they undertake are each based on a quasi-immediate transcription, as a defence mechanism against entropy. In Équipée...

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Main Author: Raphaël Piguet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Clermont Auvergne
Series:Viatica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/574
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description Claude Lévi-Strauss and Victor Segalen share the same obsession, that of the loss of knowledge, established by the law of thermodynamics as a universal constant. In fact, the journeys they undertake are each based on a quasi-immediate transcription, as a defence mechanism against entropy. In Équipée and Tristes tropiques, the two writers pace their walks with poetry. While Segalen memorises them and draws the formless to allow memories to survive, Lévi-Strauss invents them and draws them in order to exorcise unbalanced form.
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Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
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memory
Segalen (Victor)
Lévi-Strauss (Claude)
entropy
food
title Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
title_full Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
title_fullStr Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
title_full_unstemmed Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
title_short Mâcher des poèmes, croquer des statues. Les faims formelles de Victor Segalen et Claude Lévi-Strauss
title_sort macher des poemes croquer des statues les faims formelles de victor segalen et claude levi strauss
topic memory
Segalen (Victor)
Lévi-Strauss (Claude)
entropy
food
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