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• W248797110 abstract "Georges Perec isn't typically associated with anything we might call realism, but from 1959 to 1963, before joining the Oulipo, he belonged to a group of leftist writers who called themselves La ligne generale--after the film by Sergei Eisenstein--and with whom he collaborated on a program for a new realist literature. At a moment when disillusion with the French Communist Party (PCF) was intensifying, La ligne generale deployed a Marxian aesthetic and a revolutionary critique of contemporary that positioned itself against both a shifting party line and an uncritical cultural pluralism. For a Realist Literature first appeared in the fourth issue of Partisans--an unorthodox leftist journal committed less to art and culture than to social struggle and geopolitical analysis--where it kept world-historical company beside Fidel Castro's Je suis marxiste-leniniste and Francis Jeanson's Problemes deformation dans l'Algerie nouvelle. The essay's hard line may seem at odds with Perec's reputation as a writer of lipograms, palindromes, and puzzles--or as a practitioner of an apolitical potential literature often characterized, if not caricatured, by its abjuration of semantic intention and its use of procedural constraints. For a Realist Literature may even sound doctrinaire, with its sometimes wooden application of categories and formulas derived from the criticism of Georg Lukdcs, whose Meaning of Contemporary Realism had just been translated into French. Yet it is by way of its rhetorical strain and polemical pitch that the essay registers a real political crisis for the left, which was then struggling to grasp, represent, and transform a postcolonial France unable to comprehend its recent history: occupation by Germany, occupation of Algeria, and postwar modernization in general. In relation to this crisis, Perec radicalized the question what does it mean to be a writer on the left? and sustained a response in a suite of essays that grew out of his early collaboration with La ligne generale. These essays address a range of cultural figures, movements, and works, including Robert Antelme's L'Espece humaine, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour, and Alban Bergs Wozzek. One edge of Perec's position cut against an attitude of cultural pluralism and its indiscriminating tolerance toward incompatible aesthetic trends, a tolerance arguably mirroring that of the market itself. This was an attitude tacitly suggested by the PCF's own fickle, if not contradictory, position on art and during the years following Stalin's death (1953) and the suppression of the anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary (1956), as French intellectual life turned toward softer Marxisms and new language-centered forms of critique. In For a Realist Literature Perec ruthlessly scrutinizes two irreconcilable literary forms, both of which aligned themselves, however differently, with leftist critical practices: Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman, and Jean-Paul Sartre's novel. Robbe-Grillet's revolution of high French literary production aimed to purge meaningful human relations from the representation of the world of things. As the fully realized form of a new literary tendency, the nouveau roman was curiously mimetic insofar as its appearance imitated the petrified world of the commodity and its depthless elision of social life. By contrast, Sartre's engaged novel, to which Perec was more partial, presumed literature's responsibility to represent the social world and the individual's position in it. Sartre ascribed a certain agency to literature: to write was to act, and to act was to choose freedom, not only for oneself but for the world. Consequently, to privilege as a form of communicative action required Sartre to minimize the attention draws to itself as art. So while Robbe-Grillet sought to minimize the human, Sartre felt obliged to minimize the aesthetic. These were exemplary figures and objects for Perec's critique insofar as they represented the most advanced programs within the literary field at the time. …" @default.
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