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The article is based upon Valéry's assertion that the task of the critic is to identify the "types of transformations" effected by the writer "from one impulse to another". It examines the dynamics of beginning in the writing of Paul Valéry and Marguerite Duras and argues that the creative force is propelled not by any pre-determined sense of finality, but by uncertainty, and the sense that all is lost. We demonstrate the fundamental role of incompletion and absence of direction, so that, far from being based upon a linear, teleological process, the writing proceeds from one absence to another
Author(s): Stimpson B
Editor(s): Gifford, P; Schmid, M
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: La création en acte: Devenir de la critique génétique
Year: 2007
Volume: 289
Pages: 111-129
Series Title: Faux Titre
Number of Volumes: 1
Publisher: Rodopi
Place Published: Amsterdam / New York
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9789042020931
