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reviewed Au voleur ! by Catherine Malabou

Catherine Malabou: Au voleur ! (French language, 2022, Presses Universitaires De France) 4 stars

un bel ouvrage d'analyse mais très académique dans sa forme et dans son propos

4 stars

Un bel ouvrage qui relit les concepts et usages de l'anarchie chez plusieurs philosophes du 20e siècle (Schürmann, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben et Rancière) à partir de leur prise de distance, méfiance voire refus de se référer aux écrits anarchistes et à l'anarchisme comme mouvement. L'analyse rigoureuse des textes est le point fort de cette enquête très précise, mais aussi sa limite, car on aurait aimé que l'anarchisme ait également des effets sur la façon d'écrire et de problématiser de l'autrice. Le livre maintient une forme très académique de pratique de la philosophie et questionne peu une certaine façon de raconter son histoire, dont les personnes sexisées et racisées demeurent absentes en tant que penseur·euses et sujet·ttes de pensée. Les autrices anarchistes ne sont pas évoquées: Emma Goldman ou Voltairine de Cleyre par exemple, et cela compte au vu du propos du livre.

Jenn Shapland: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2021, Tin House Books, LLC) 5 stars

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the …

It isn't easy to narrate happiness or love, and it's hard to prove their existence through recorded facts and descriptions. What is the precise evidence for love? Documentation of sexual encounters? Examples of daily intimacies? Easier to tell and to corroborate are stories of pain, dramatic events, betrayals. Love meanwhile lives in the mundane, the moment-to-moment exchanges, and can so easily become invisible after the people who shared it are no longer alive. But, of course, it leaves traces.

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Jenn Shapland: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2021, Tin House Books, LLC) 5 stars

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the …

a beautiful memoir

5 stars

A beautifully crafted memoir, which entangles the author's exploration of Carson McCullers' queer life and archives with her own coming to terms with her identity both as a writer and as a lesbian. It's tender and precise and full of care about what it means to read and interpret the past when you long for traces of queer history as you examine your own changing self. The book unfolds in a constant wondering about queer understandings of love, reciprocity and creativity that have existed before and which you may (or may not) be able to recover in the interstices of the literary and art canon. A big fan of McCullers myself, I wasn't disappointed!