Defining excess based on the conception of the common good has been a constant parameter overtime. It was in the 20 th century that the individual openly laid claim to the right to cross the socalled permitted boundaries and consider excess as a key element of cogito (Camus A, The Rebel, 1951). Nietzsche, Bataille, Debord, among others, theorized excess as a distinctive trait of an individual who chooses to act with an anti-utilitarian purpose, someone who constructs themself in their being on earth, through a know-how that fulfils them in a tangible, concrete manner, outside abstract postulates (music and dance for Nietzsche, writing for Perec, cinema for Godard, and so on). With the collapse of the myth of a universe in which virtue and ethic were presupposed, and which availed of a « grammar », the individual in complete solitude considers the gratuitous, waste, a key feature of an intemporal existence (that is, noncausal) and without constraints.
Introduction, Beatrice Barbalato .................................................................................. 9
De l'hybris à l’Überschwang, et de l’Überschwang à l’excès créateur,
May Chehab ............................................................................................................ 57
« Nous sommes plusieurs qui l’accusons » :
les rêves d’angoisse sans fin d’Althusser, Sabine Hillen ........................................... 71
Perec autobiographe : excéder toute mesure ?, Benoît Abert .................................. 85
Excès et communication dans l’oeuvre de Michel Leiris, Jean Tufféry ...................... 97
L’eccesso della sensibilità fisiologica come strategia del dire vero in Ariosto,
Goda Bulybenko .................................................................................................. 119
Et le Fou devint roi : l’autobiographie de Garry Kasparov.
Le franc-tireur contre les apparatchiks, Cédric Pérolini ......................................... 139
L’esempio autobiografico tra impegno ed eccesso di Alberto Bellocchio,
Claudia Conti ....................................................................................................... 153
La dépense de soi et l’excès dans 'L’exil d’Ovide' de Salim Bachi,
Lamia Mecheri ..................................................................................................... 175
Exprimer des devenirs : l’autobiographie figurale de Jean-Luc Godard
Marilena Karra ..................................................................................................... 185