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Armand Gatti. L'arche des langages
Theatre and Performance

Armand Gatti. L'arche des langages

Author(s): Collectif, Lucile Garbagnati, Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre
Publisher: UNIVERSITE DE DIJON
Series: ECRITURES
Published on: 02/12/2004
ISBN: 2-915552-07-X
280 pages

Abstract
"Walk as if that were the goal to be reached," Armand Gatti liked to repeat. This volume, dedicated to his work and his era—which is also ours—aims to take a step back, not to strip them of emotion, but to understand their guiding threads and define their aesthetic, political, and ontological stakes. What matters is neither memory as such, nor the sole duty of remembrance, but the future of the past, which Gatti turns into an undeniable necessity. "We are not historical characters, we are persons, we are survivors." This fine, tragic, and lucid expression by Armand Gatti serves as the Ariadne's thread for the various articles in this book—"an Ariadne's thread, ever resonant with the voice of Orpheus's song," in the words of Gilles Deleuze (A Thousand Plateaus). With Gatti, creation becomes an act of resistance and survival.

Book awaiting a reviewer for a review in Acta Fabula.

This collective volume, published by the Université de Dijon in 2004 under the editorship of Lucile Garbagnati and Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, is dedicated to the work and era of Armand Gatti. The volume aims to take a step back to understand the guiding threads of Gatti's output and define its aesthetic, political, and ontological stakes, treating creation as an act of resistance and survival.

Readers interested in modern French literature and drama may find this volume relevant to their studies. The book gathers various articles that examine Gatti's work through the perspective of survival, memory, and the future of the past, engaging with an influential voice in modern letters and contemporary performance traditions.