Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/genesis.1760>
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DOI: <
10.4000/genesis.1760>
Abstract
C. F. Ramuz is a systematic rewriter. This article will put into perspective the rewritings he carried out as early as 1924 for his Parisian publisher Grasset. We will consider on the one hand the conditions of this rewriting gesture, in the context of an editorial enunciation, and on the other, the effect on the writing practice and on its representation for the writer. This double axis of reflection helps to observe that the finality that Ramuz assigns to rewriting is not to correct mistakes nor to adapt his language to a new readership, but to reactivate the production link that unites the scriptor and his text, a connection broken by the publication. The hypothesis of a rewriting imaginary, as a re-enunciation, highlights the issues mainly at stake for the writer in this gesture. These issues, the problematic of writing time and the age of writing or that of a particular form of double locution conferring to the scriptor the function of first reader of his own book, thus determine the finality and the type of rewritings carried out by the writer.