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Bartleby reveals her universe

Eric Bonnargent accepted at the end of the year to confide in the tavern about the interruption of his blog Bartleby's eyes open , its new projects, and also address some issues revolving around literature and the blogosphere.
Thanks to him for having lent the game so spontaneously.

• What motivates your decision to stop your blog at the end of the year, and no longer collaborate Fric Frac Club ?

For FFC is a bit long and not very interesting. Let's say I had contact with two or three members and I do I've never felt in my place in this group. My personality did not fit with that of others, some in particular. The split became irreversible after maintenance that François Monti and I've done with Juan Asensio , maintaining that the FCC, for obscure reasons on which I have already explained, has refused to publish (François Monti is nevertheless one of the founders of the FFC). It was the first time a veto was laid on the text of one of us. Anyway, I am always a reader of the FFC, which is undoubtedly one of the best literary blogs available on the net.

Regarding my blog, it lasted three and half years. It will close on January 9, the texts will be available a few days then it will disappear completely. I publish two articles per week and it becomes too burdensome. Readers do not realize it, but it's much, much work and I have cravings for something else. Yet it is a bit difficult to suddenly disappear and that's why, January 9 at night, begin a new adventure in collaboration with Marc Villemain ( whose next novel will be released in the spring Quidam ). We want to devote less time both to our personal blogs, where the idea of creating a set. Most of the time, we will not talk of books and when we do, it will be from different viewpoints, but complementary. I think it will be a great adventure because, unlike what happened with the FFC, we really are friends and know that between us there will be no ego problems or pettiness of any kind.

• Can you tell me about your activities around the book which, despite our privacy some of them are still unknown to me?

Do not worry, I will not reveal anything about our privacy
... My main activity remains for a few weeks my blog. I also worked at Magazine Books for which I write some reviews and conducts interviews with French and foreign writers. In the last issue, for example, I talk with Eric Pessan About Incident person, but also with Horacio Castellanos Moya about to collapse .
But what, now mind most is the completion of my book due out next spring to Publishing Vampire Active . This is an essay entitled Small treaty shifted literature. This book is built around reviews for the most part already published on my blog (with also unpublished), but rewritten for the occasion. The Atopia, ie, the time lag that some characters may experience with daily reality, was the thread (not always respected) my blog. This discrepancy arises from an acute awareness of his own individuality and leads to a malaise that can manifest itself in different forms: in particular, depression, marginalization, loss control, loss and even suicide. My book aims to introduce this concept and offer a panoramic view of world literature spoke, otherwise, I hope, quite well known texts and books, unfairly, are much less. Styron, Moravia, McCarthy or Borges rub Marechera , Mallard, Liscano or Solstad.

• Does the shift you mention, that this notion of Atopia you strive to develop, precludes Does not the name your blog, which would further highlight a sort of revelation?

Not at all, quite the contrary. One chapter of this book is also devoted to the syndrome that Bartleby Vila-Matas defines Bartleby and Co. as a 'attraction to nothingness, that makes some artists, despite ( or perhaps precisely because of) a high standard of literature, never manage to write, or write a book or two before giving up writing, or even after giving easily a work in progress, are one day literally paralyzed forever. " syndrome Bartleby is the way some writers feel that Atopia, this sense of strangeness vis-à-vis their business writing. My fascination for bartlebysme is one of the starting points of my blog. I never had the slightest pretension messianic, I just want to mention the difficulty to be in writing and in life.

• This compiler does risk does not at the same time frustrate avid readers of your blog that are already familiar with the items found there, and let the marble ones that are not your readers Blog?

I do not think this book can be frustrating, for several reasons. Firstly, a physical reason: when the book has appeared, the blog will no longer exist at all and the articles have been published will no longer be available. Will be republished on the new blog items not listed in the book. Then, even if my readers would know by heart my articles and I have no doubt!, These have mostly been rewritten. Moreover, some critics are unpublished. Finally, the Little Treaty of literature is not shifted a mere compilation. Critics are framed by two pieces in which I explain what is precisely this notion of Atopia and how she finds herself at the center of all the great masterpieces of literature.

• How do you see the proliferation of blogs on literature?

all depends on what kind of blog is talking about. I distinguish the literary blogs read blogs. I said that does not mean separate or prioritize despise. Blogs of reading, indeed, thrive. Reading a blog is a blog that provides a summary of a book and give a subjective opinion. Basically, this is for the blogger to say whether he liked or disliked a particular book. There are very well made, as Biblioblog , for example.
literary blogs, they are trying to analyze a more literary book, speaking of style, themes, instead of this book in the history of literature. There are very good. Only this approach interests me and if I take a look at some blogs to read, I do regularly read the literary blogs. Them, because they are more demanding, do not proliferate and, for that very reason their audience is often more restricted than reading blogs. Comments are also more rare because the blogs are often read of salons where people come to chat and give advice.

• In your eyes, what defines a work compelling?

It is impossible to answer this issue in a nutshell ... The question is inexhaustible, but I would say, simply put, a work is convincing when the author has something to say and has a unique way to say it. Too many poor books, both in style and ideas. Steiner wrote somewhere: "The artist, the thinker, exceptional give a new interpretation of it. "One book convinces me when offering a new reading of it.

• What is the last book you could not finish?

Let me think ... I try always go to the end of a book. I remember the coup, the first book I have not finished, it was the Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter of Simone de Beauvoir . Regarding the latter, I hesitate between Sport and hobby of Salter and the novel that everyone loves so much, The City of absent Piglia . The first annoyed me deeply, deeply annoyed the second. I must say that I have trouble with postmodernism. It always the same recipes at work and it is painful: a little history, a little science, real characters that include fiction, narratives multiply, etc.. The content changes each time, but the shape is always the same.

• What are the opportunities that blogs offer no other media?

The blog provides an opportunity for anyone to speak on any subject. The disadvantage, and the literary field is no exception to the rule, it is often to say anything anyhow. The advantage is that it allows real players to talk about literature and especially a literature that traditional media does not talk or whatever. A few years ago, only the blogs talking about Roberto Bolaño of William Vollmann , etc.. These readers are often much more talented and cultured than professional journalists have never had the opportunity to express themselves without this platform that is the blog.

• What is your latest influenced by reading a blog?

I do not remember, but I often buy books based on my reading on bouquinosphère. On my table there, for example, Edgar Hilsenrath and there will soon Gabrielle Wittkop .

• Sacred travel perspective, very different from one another. And a literary magazine?

I do not read any literary magazine ... There is too much talk of books, acclaimed in the same manner, demolished in the same way and sections, format required, are generally not searched enough and say, therefore, nothing interesting ...

• How do you see the arrival of "book virtual "and the threat it poses to the book in its" classic "?

I do not see it ... A virtual book did nothing for me a book. It is possible that the phenomenon of taking magnitude, I do not know, but I do not think so. If, however, this proves to be the case, I'm terribly unhappy. Firstly, I can not stand to read on a screen. Then, I like the book as object. I like the different formats. I like good work for some publishers. A book has a weight, smell, texture. Touching the paper is a nice feeling. to touch, I am able to recognize some publishers. Even the noise of a page that looks pleasant. Like the thin squeal that made my pencil on paper when I said passages or write comments. My relationship to the book is carnal. The digital book is disembodied, it is an abstraction. The digital reading is ultimately a bit like cybersex, this may be convenient, but it misses the point.