12 research outputs found
La quête bouddhiste et l’esthétique postmoderniste russe : le cas de Viktor Pelevin
Notre article vise à analyser la fonction sémantico-poétique que remplissent les éléments de la philosophie bouddhique dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain russe contemporain Viktor Pelevin, notamment dans son roman La Mitrailleuse d’argile. Le texte retrouvé dans une « Mongolie intérieure » par le « Président du Front Bouddhiste de la Libération totale et définitive » représente un kaléidoscope de réalités virtuelles, hypothétiques, hallucinatoires, qui semblent graviter autour de la notion dominante dans l’imaginaire de Pelevin : celle de la vacuité. L’interrogation sur les origines et les enjeux de cette notion induira la question du sens de la quête bouddhique – pure expérience esthétique ou nouveau refuge idéologique – au sein du postmodernisme russe.The article explores the semantic and poetic functions performed by elements of Buddhist philosophy in the work of the contemporary Russian writer Victor Pelevin, particularly in his novel Chapayev and Void. According to its author, the text was found in an “ Inner Mongolia ” by the “ President of the Buddhist Front of the total and definitive Liberation ” and represents a kaleidoscope of virtual, hypothetical and hallucinatory realities that seem to gravitate around the dominant concept in Pelevin’s world : emptiness. The origins and challenges of this concept lead to the question of the Buddhist quest’s meaning – pure aesthetic experience or new ideological refuge – in Russian postmodernism
Sur quelques étrangers exotiques dans la prose contemporaine russe
Au centre du présent article se trouve le roman de Denis Goutsko, Un Russophone, puisant son écriture dans le chaos babylonien social et spirituel de la Russie contemporaine et proposant à son lecteur une vision apocalyptique de la réalité postsoviétique. L’accueil d’une altérité exotique y rime avec « écueil » et l’auto-identification de l’individu s’y structure à travers la notion d’auto-étrangéité inconditionnelle
Here and there, now
A textile installation shaped by traditional embroidery, geographical differences, technology and novel natural dye is the focus of this paper. ‘Through the globe’ [Através do globo] is the result of a six week artist in residency at Contextile 2016 in Guimarães, Portugal.1 It builds upon environmental pest invasive weed dye research, interprets ‘traditional’ embroidery illustrating the poetics of place.2 The essence of Guimarães embroidery provides the narrative along the fourteen metre length and is the physical embodiment of the antipodal link between and Wellington, New Zealand. The challenge offered by Contextile 2016 was to collaborate with Oficina embroiderers to learn, then use traditional Guimarães embroidery, and, then exhibit the work at Residências Artistícas at Casa da Memória [House of Memory] in the Contextile 2016 triennial.3 During a period in the late nineteenth century a desire for the creation of national identity existed and the documentation of Guimarães embroidery began to ensure it gained visibility.4 The embroidery arose from a range of other factors including human will, sensibility, and dexterity to create a united unique style. Traditionally, rural women’s waistcoats were richly embroidered, such as one included in the University of Aberdeen Needlework Development Scheme collection. 5 Now, Guimarães embroidery is mostly used to adorn home ware products for the tourist market