Abstract:This essay aims to show how two divergent writings-Pour un Tombeau d'Anatole by Mallarmé and Voyage au bout de la nuit by Céline-actually share the main topic: the relationship between the Work and the Impossible. This impossibility is referred on the one hand to the attempt of literature to overcome death, while on the other hand to the endeavour to blur differences between literature and life. If Mallarmé's goal is to reabsorb the whole world within language Céline's one is to dissolve thought into experienc… Show more
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