Snapshots: Fotografische Spuren in Félix Vallottons Roman La vie meurtrière

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dc.title	Snapshots: Fotografische Spuren in Félix Vallottons Roman La vie meurtrière
dc.contributor.author	Kuwalewski Anna
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2021/55/snapshots-fotografische-spuren-in-felix-vallottons/
dc.description.abstract	The transformation of narrative techniques in works from the nineteenth to the twentieth century clearly shows the existence of some forms of interaction between literature and photography. This interaction defines ‘The Photographic’ as a Denkfigur of linguistic mediality, as the analysis of the exemplary novel La vie meurtrière (1907/08) by the writer-artist Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) reveals. His écriture can be associated with the semiotic properties of the technical medium of photography. The author aspires to leave a photographic ‘trace’ throughout his novel by attempting to appropriate techniques such as the snapshot. In this way, the text creates a medial simulation, which generates breaches between the visible and the invisible, thereby dealing with the linguistic representation of mental, ‘non-representable’ images.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 55 \| September 2021
dc.issued	2021-08-26
dc.dateAccepted	2021-07-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-06-07
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2021/09/010
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Félix Vallotton
dc.subject	Félix Vallotton
dc.subject	Intermediality
dc.subject	Intermediality
dc.subject	Invisibility
dc.subject	Invisibility
dc.subject	Photography
dc.subject	Photography
dc.subject	Snapshots
dc.subject	Snapshots
dc.subject	The ‘non-representable’
dc.subject	The ‘non-representable’

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Snapshots: Fotografische Spuren in Félix Vallottons Roman La vie meurtrière

Anna Kuwalewski Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Deutschland

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abstract

The transformation of narrative techniques in works from the nineteenth to the twentieth century clearly shows the existence of some forms of interaction between literature and photography. This interaction defines ‘The Photographic’ as a Denkfigur of linguistic mediality, as the analysis of the exemplary novel La vie meurtrière (1907/08) by the writer-artist Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) reveals. His écriture can be associated with the semiotic properties of the technical medium of photography. The author aspires to leave a photographic ‘trace’ throughout his novel by attempting to appropriate techniques such as the snapshot. In this way, the text creates a medial simulation, which generates breaches between the visible and the invisible, thereby dealing with the linguistic representation of mental, ‘non-representable’ images.

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Aug. 26, 2021

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July 7, 2021

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June 7, 2021

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Keywords: Snapshots • Félix Vallotton • Intermediality • Invisibility • The ‘non-representable’ • Photography

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