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Introduction
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Thesecondpartofthevolume,OnFrenchLiteratureandHWorld
Literature”revolvesaroundliteraturewriteninFrenchinFranceand
outsideit.TomaszSwoboda’sarticleopensthissectionwithhisanalysis
ofthenotionofutopiainthewritingofMichelLeiris.Thestudycom-
menceswiththequotationwhichappearsatfirstsightlight-heartedand
whichcanbefoundinthewriter’sJournal;thequotationsendsoneback
toEdy-Legrand’schildren’sbookMacaoetCosmage.Swobodadiscusses
thebook’sreflectioninLeiris’swriting.HeusesBronisławBaczko’sno-
tionsthatwerecoinedinordertodescribeutopiancommunitiesand
questionstheideathatutopianthoughtcanbefoundinLeiris’swork.
PersonalmemoriesoftheteachingdonebyProfessorKrzysztof
JaroszandofhisfascinationwithJeanGiono’swork,especiallywith
hissymbolicnovelUnRoisansdivertissementthathediscussedwith
hisstudents,inspiredMichałKrzykawskitoundertaketheanalysisof
fascinationwithdiverseformsofviolencethatconstituteacommonde-
nominatorforplentyofFrenchintellectualsbelongingtodiferentgen-
erations,suchasBataille,Foucault,andmembersoftheTelquelgroup.
ForKrzykawskitheircultuscruōrisisgroundedintheiratachmentto
Hegelianthought,andspecificallytoAlexandreKojève’sinterpretation
oftheendofhistory.
EwaFigasandKarolinaKapołkaexplorethedebateontheposition
ofFrench-languageliterature(theydeliberatelyavoidthephraseHfran-
cophone”)inQuebec,Canada,andinotherpartsoftheworldwhere
itisconfrontedwithworksbyotherwriterswritinginFrench.Figas
andKapołkaareparticularlyinterestedinthechoiceofFrenchasthe
languageofone’sworkinthecaseofauthorswhoneithercomefrom
FrancenoruseFrenchasfirstlanguage.Thetwoauthorsalsodiscuss
thedeathoffrancophoneliteratureannouncedbytheworldliterature
manifestopublishedin2007.
ThesectionconsistingofstudiesonFrench-languageliteratureis
followedbythesectionontranslation,BetweenFrenchandEnglish:On
Translation.Thearticleincludedinthesectioninvestigatestheinterplay
betweentheoriginalanditstranslationobservableintheworksituated
Hbetweentwolanguages”byNancyHouston,aCanadianauthorfor
whomEnglishisthefirstlanguageandFrenchisthelanguageofchoice.
