比较文学与世界文学学术系列讲座之八十八
Fact Into Fiction in Contemporary Literature
内容简介
“This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.” Such disclaimers, familiar in the history of cinema, have traditionally signified the precise opposite, asserting legal impunity for various deliberate – far from purely accidental – uses of facts. Contemporary versions of these disclaimers, however, suggest a more intricate interplay between fiction and reality, paradoxically affirming both the freedom of fiction and the narrative’s rootedness in reality. They establish a paradoxical form of reading pact: authors lay claim to fiction in order to acknowledge a debt to reality or assert their fidelity to facts. But how does fact then become fiction, and what residual realities persist in the process? Does the contemporary taste for “true stories” allow more than a marginal place for fiction? Drawing on a range of French and English-language works (by authors such as Olivia Rosenthal, Lola Lafon, Patrick Deville, and Lauren Groff), this talk surveys theoretical perspectives on fictionalization and examines the reconfiguration of real lives and events in contemporary literary forms.
主讲人简介
Alison James is Professor of French Literature at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on 20th and 21st-century French literature, factual writing, and theories of fiction. She is the author of Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo (Northwestern University Press, 2009), and The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature: Writing with Facts (Oxford University Press, 2020). She has also edited or co-edited collective works and journal issues on literary formalisms (L’Esprit créateur vol. 28, no. 2, 2008), non-fictional writing (Frontières de la non-fiction, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013, with Christophe Reig), fieldwork literatures (Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine, no. 18, 2019, with Dominique Viart), the uses of fiction (The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief, 2024, with Françoise Lavocat and Akihiro Kubo), and contemporary writings of the everyday (La Licorne, no. 137, with Corinne Grenouillet and Maryline Heck, forthcoming).
讲座信息
讲座时间：2024年5月23日9:00（北京时间）
讲座地点：腾讯会议145-642-514
主持人：高冀，北京大学比较文学与比较文化研究所助理教授
主办单位：北京大学中文系、北京大学比较文学与比较文化研究所
协办单位：北京大学出版社、中国比较文学学学会《比较文学与世界文学》
海报 | 肖钦文
编辑 | 高蕴萌
