While discussing first the possibility of implementing consensual, cosmopolitan practices to analyze a text, this article also suggests that the process of engaging the specific powers of literature doesn’t require, as such, any method but the singular one tacitly imposed by the literary work itself.
Focused on a close-reading of François-René de Chateaubriand’s novella René (1802), my present contribution to the 2017 “Literature argues” symposium examines how literary works operate on readers, and potentially offer them a chance to become genuine, democratic respondents, at the risk of braving some of the expectations that prevail nowadays in academia (which remains mostly grounded, at least from a formal viewpoint, on what François Laruelle would call a “Principle of Sufficient Reason”).
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