caa a22 4500 463200470 CHVBK 20180405153111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9016-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9016-x Kremer Nathalie Postdoctoraal onderzoeker van het Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), KU Leuven, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut De la feintise à la fiction. Le mouvement dialogal de la préface [Elektronische Daten] [Nathalie Kremer] The preface of the eighteenth-century French novel is usually considered to be a means of authentication of the novel, that is to say, it aims at establishing the veracity of the text, using different kinds of procedures that certify either its origin (e.g. in resorting to the procedure of the found manuscript), or the truthfulness of the related events (e.g. by resorting to witnesses or historical figures). These authentication-procedures are so widely diffused and repeated, however, that they become ‹common topics' of the prefatory discourse. This article is based on the theoretical assumption, as formulated by Jean Bessière, that literature stems from the juncture of common ideas on the one hand, and creativity on the other. The common topics ensure the acknowledgement of literature, and thereby its very existence. Starting from this theoretical statement, our scope is to show that the topics in the prefatory discourse of the novel in the eighteenth century do not want to "make us believe” in the truth of the novel, but rather to "make us recognize” the novel as fiction. If at first sight the preface appears as a "fake”, the topicality of its discourse obliterates this idea and establishes the recognition of fiction. Thus eighteenth-century fiction is based on a paradox: it exists on the basis of a discourse that, when read literally, intends to deny its fictional nature. We aim at foregrounding this assumption through the discussion of three main aspects of the prefatory discourse: the performativity of the preambulary "I”, the procedure of the found manuscript, and the topic of the authenticating witness. In doing so, we adopt a pragmatic standpoint, situated along the lines of the works of Jean-Marie Schaeffer. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 583-595 0028-2677 91:4<583 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9016-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9016-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kremer Nathalie Postdoctoraal onderzoeker van het Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), KU Leuven, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000, Leuven, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 583-595 0028-2677 91:4<583 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer