Mnemosyne o la costruzione del senso n° 12 – 2019

Auto/biographie, désordre, entropie Auto/biografia, disordine, entropia Auto/biography, disorder, entropy

Managing editor Beatrice Barbalato

The articles published here highlight how some authors identify recurrences in the bumpy ride of their existence; others make the act of narrating coincide with the here and now of events, with their fragmentary manifestation, or at the very moment of their emergence from memory. Read More

The word entropy means a system's intrinsic for transformation. Using an oxymoron, Prigogine defines
The Laws of chaos as recognizing constants in dynamic systems without predictable orientation. From the beginning of the 1900s, a change of focus occurs: to include the incidence of instability when assessing every set of manifestations. From physics, through medicine, through psychology, to literature, the perspective of research changes radically. In what way does an autobiography metabolize and tame the unexpected ? The articles published here highlight how some authors identify recurrences in the bumpy ride of their existence; others make the act of narrating coincide with the here and now of events, with their fragmentary manifestation, or at the very moment of their emergence from memory. Such different approaches do not ascribe objectivity to memory, which is quintessentially entropic. By doing so, they do not mean to record the content of memory but rather to indicate how to generate and organise the meaning of memory.


La parola entropia significa capacità intrinseca di un sistema di trasformarsi. Leggi del caos definisce con un ossimoro Prigogine (1993) il riconoscere delle costanti in sistemi dinamici senza un orientamento prevedibile. Dall'inizio del Novecento viene ad imporsi un cambiamento di focus : includere l’incidenza dell’instabilità nello studio di ogni insieme di manifestazioni. Dalla fisica alla medicina, alla psicologia, alla letteratuza cambia radicalmente l’ottica della ricerca. In che modo un’autobiografia metabolizza e addomestica l’imprevisto ? Gli articoli qui pubblicati mettono in luce come alcuni autori colgano nel proprio vissuto accidentato delle ricorrenze; altri fanno coincidere l’atto di narrare con l’hic et nunc degli eventi, col loro manifestarsi frammentario, o col momento stesso del loro emergere. Questi approcci diversi vanno ben aldilà di una trascrizione della memoria autobiografica – che è per antonomasia entropica –, essi intendono piuttosto indicare come generarne e strutturarne il senso.


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Publisher
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Managing editor
Beatrice Barbalato,
Journal
Mnemosyne
ISSN
20318502
Language
English, French, Italian
BISAC Subject Heading
BIO000000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIC subject category (UK)
B Biography & True Stories
Onix Audience Codes
06 Professional and scholarly
CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
3116 Anthropologie sociale et culturelle
Title First Published
20 June 2019
Subject Scheme Identifier Code
: Anthropologie

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Publication Date
20 June 2019
ISBN-13
9782875588265
Extent
Main content page count : 194
Code
99058
Dimensions
21 x 23 cm
Weight
395 grams
Packaging Type
No outer packaging
List Price
17.00 €
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Version 2.1, Version 3

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Publication Date
20 June 2019
ISBN-13
9782875588272
Code
99058PDF
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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Contents


Introduction, Beatrice Barbalato  9

Malgré tout, raconter. Délinéarisation du récit dans les entretiens oraux sur la Shoah

Sophie Milquet  51

Désordres de la recherche dans les autobiographies de mathématiciens

Odile Chatirichvili  69

Emmanuel Carrère et ses personnages face a l'événement

Francoise Hiraux  89

Esthétique de la coupure dans W ou le souvenir d’enfance de Georges Perec

Elise Wiener  103

Une joyeuse dystaxie programmée : Jacques le fataliste et son maître

May Chehab 117

Fortuna labilis ed entropia nel Memoriale delle cose occorse a me Franco Sivori

Alexandra Vranceanu Pagliardini  129

Raccontarsi e ri-raccontarsi : Infanzia a Venezia, di Luciano Emmer

Michele Emmer 143

Ben Lerner’s 10:04 : Entropy and Metamodern Autofiction

Eimantė Liubertaitė  161

Elogio dell’entropia : Insciallah di Oriana Fallaci

Ewa Tichoniuk-Wawrowicz  173


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