Adieu ! de Balzac, un texte qui soigne ou un texte qui tue

What is a discourse that cures? Obviously not a text which describes remedies, but a discourse which provides them. In Adieu, Balzac proposes the idea of an active representation that has the ability to cure as well as to kill. This short story, written in 1830, tells a story about a virtual madness...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-Luc Martine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2008-06-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/904