Vanessa Guignery
Biographic Data
| ID | 218341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Guignery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Guignery |
| SIGNATURE | GUIGNERY V |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4008-2007 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conversations with Ben Okri
Introduction
In 1999, Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of The Unconsoled (1995), wondered why people participate in art, write or read books, and he came to the conclusion that they “are trying to address some wound, or at least something that is broken in their lives,” even if they are aware that it is too late to mend whatever was fractured. When he suggested that “art is a form of consolation,” he did not mean that art could heal the wound, bring comfort or make…
“The struggle to be free”
International audience
“The struggle to be free”
Literature and the Indian working class
The Precarious Balance of Refugees
Contemporary novels about refugees often question the appropriateness of traditional narrative forms to relate stories of forced migration which involve a fragmentation of the self and of one’s sense of reality. Writers opt instead for forms which are as disjointed as the experience of refugees themselves. This paper explores the precarious balance between a poetics of rupture and an aesthetics of connectivity in two novels about refugees: Exit W…
Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English
International audience
Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English
Anita Brookner and Julian Barnes
En 1984, Anita Brookner et Julian Barnes apparurent tous deux sur la liste du Booker Prize, respectivement pour Hotel du Lac et Flaubert’s Parrot . Bien que ces deux romans et l’œuvre fictionnelle des deux auteurs dans leur ensemble présentent de grandes différences, ce qui explique qu’ils n’aient pas encore donné lieu à des travaux critiques comparatifs, les chemins de Brookner et Barnes se sont croisés à plusieurs reprises, en partie en raison …
Anita Brookner and Julian Barnes
Salman Rushdie in conversation
Crossing the River
This interview took place on 27 September 2016 at Yale University and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and is for the most part devoted to Caryl Phillips’s fifth novel Crossing the River (1993).1
Jonathan Coe’s Like a Fiery Elephant
International audience
An Interview with Ben Okri
An Interview with Ben Okri Vanessa Guignery (bio) This interview was conducted in London on April 29, 2015. GUIGNERY: Your most recent novel, The Age of Magic, appeared in 2014, seven years after your previous novel Starbook, and it appears as a follow-up to In Arcadia, published twelve years before in 2002. In the meantime, you published stokus, essays, and poems. Had you been writing the novel during all these years when you were working in oth…
Ben Okri
Ben OkriA Man of Many Arts Vanessa Guignery (bio) “I would like to master the art of living,” says Lao in The Art of Magic (45). Although this remark is met by demonic laughter, for Ben Okri, living is as much of an art as writing, painting, or composing. As Okri has remarked in an interview, “The way we interpret art is a preparation for the way we interpret life” (Interview 215). Okri’s novels, short stories, poems, and essays from Flowers and …
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An Interview with Ben Okri
An Interview with Ben Okri Vanessa Guignery (bio) This interview was conducted in London on April 29, 2015. GUIGNERY: Your most recent novel, The Age of Magic, appeared in 2014, seven years after your previous novel Starbook, and it appears as a follow-up to In Arcadia, published twelve years before in 2002. In the meantime, you published stokus, essays, and poems. Had you been writing the novel during all these years when you were working in oth…
Ben Okri
Ben OkriA Man of Many Arts Vanessa Guignery (bio) “I would like to master the art of living,” says Lao in The Art of Magic (45). Although this remark is met by demonic laughter, for Ben Okri, living is as much of an art as writing, painting, or composing. As Okri has remarked in an interview, “The way we interpret art is a preparation for the way we interpret life” (Interview 215). Okri’s novels, short stories, poems, and essays from Flowers and …
Crossing the River
This interview took place on 27 September 2016 at Yale University and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and is for the most part devoted to Caryl Phillips’s fifth novel Crossing the River (1993).1
Jonathan Coe’s Like a Fiery Elephant
International audience
Salman Rushdie in conversation
Anita Brookner and Julian Barnes
En 1984, Anita Brookner et Julian Barnes apparurent tous deux sur la liste du Booker Prize, respectivement pour Hotel du Lac et Flaubert’s Parrot . Bien que ces deux romans et l’œuvre fictionnelle des deux auteurs dans leur ensemble présentent de grandes différences, ce qui explique qu’ils n’aient pas encore donné lieu à des travaux critiques comparatifs, les chemins de Brookner et Barnes se sont croisés à plusieurs reprises, en partie en raison …
Anita Brookner and Julian Barnes
The Precarious Balance of Refugees
Contemporary novels about refugees often question the appropriateness of traditional narrative forms to relate stories of forced migration which involve a fragmentation of the self and of one’s sense of reality. Writers opt instead for forms which are as disjointed as the experience of refugees themselves. This paper explores the precarious balance between a poetics of rupture and an aesthetics of connectivity in two novels about refugees: Exit W…
Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English
International audience
Introduction. Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English
Literature and the Indian working class
Conversations with Ben Okri
Introduction
In 1999, Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of The Unconsoled (1995), wondered why people participate in art, write or read books, and he came to the conclusion that they “are trying to address some wound, or at least something that is broken in their lives,” even if they are aware that it is too late to mend whatever was fractured. When he suggested that “art is a form of consolation,” he did not mean that art could heal the wound, bring comfort or make…
“The struggle to be free”
International audience
“The struggle to be free”
Art (10 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Conversation (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works)