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De l'engagement à la poétique et au-delà (Guérin, Genet, Duvert, Camus et Louis)

Daniel Guérin (1904-1988), Jean Genet (1910-1986), Tony Duvert (1945- 2008), Renaud Camus (1946-) and Édouard Louis (1992-), writers who came after Gide, question “engagement” after Sartre in the field of homosexuality: from Guérin’s autobiographical writings and his Vautrin, to Genet’s Prisoner of Love, the two elders reassess the presupposed necessary link between homosexuality and revolution. Guérin, libertarian anarchist / socialist, sociologist, sexologist and writer, announces that social criticism and subversion of common values aren’t enough. Genet, the “Actor” and “Martyr”, shows, through his commitment to the Palestinians and the Black Panthers not only the pathetic, but also the poetic implications of “engagement”, a new potential of the “beyond” mere transgression. This transgression, announced by Genet and Foucault, visible in Duvert’s writings, reaches new heights with Camus’s Tricks, prefaced by Barthes. This corpus introduces the problematic shift from identity to “normalization” of gays, represented by Louis’s The End of Eddy. From the so-called revolution, through transgression, to aesthetics, this path raises the question why writing becomes a platform that, in a non-flattened, nonmystified and non-identity- based representation of the everyday life, finds its “becoming-plebeian” in autobiography.

homosexualité, autobiographie, identité, littérature, engagement

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