Roger Caillois, raison et vertiges : un homme dans son siècle
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Abstract EN:
Ancien proche du grand jeu, transfuge du surrealisme, normalien anti-conformiste, roger caillois souhaita la mort de la litterature, tenta d'elaborer une phenomenologie de l'imagination et s'efforca avec georges bataille de rendre "le sacre epidemique". Exile en argentine pendant la guerre, il frequenta grace a victoria ocampo les plus grand auteurs latino-americains, crea lettres francaises et apprit l'espagnol. A son retour en france, il revint au classicisme, fonda chez gallimard la collection la croix du sud et a l'unesco la revue diogene. Il elabora le concept de sciences diagonales avant d'ebaucher une poetique generalisee. Esprit independant, homme de vertiges autant que de raison, roger caillois fondait son pari theorique sur celui d'une solidarite entre les regnes; base, comme espere le demontrer cette biographie litteraire et existentielle, sur le postulat d'un univers un et fini qui l'obseda toute sa vie.
Abstract FR:
Formerly close to the "grand jeu", deserter of the surrealist movement, student of the "ecole normale superieure" and nonconformist, roger caillois desired the death of literature, tried to formulate a phenomenology of imagination and with georges bataille, he made every endeavour to couvert the "sacred" into the "epidemic". Exiled to argentina during the war, he associated with the most famous latin-americain authors thanks to the publisher victoria ocampo. He founded "lettres francaises" and learned spanish. After his return to france, he reverted to classicism, started the gallimard collection "la croix du sud" and the unesco magazine "diogene". He worked out the concept of diagonal sciences before attempting the general art of poetry. A man of independant mind, vertigo as well as reason, roger caillois founded his theoretical challenge on that of joint responsibility between the prevailing opinionsbased literally and existentially on the assumption of a universe, the one and final, which obsessed him all his life, as this biography hopes to demonstrate.