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In the News (Tue 8 Dec 09)

  
  Art Switzerland, Luc Joly, Béatrice Berset
Michel Butor produces book-objects where the typographic content seeks to steal the leading role from the kaleidoscope of raw life itself, of memory and of meaning.
Michel Butor came up with the idea of, in own terms, fable cards: fl-and-white folding flyers that would serve as supports for a dialogue to be carried out between a writer-poet and a painter-artist.
Butor in turn travelled through Joly's scenery, sowing white little fragments of paper bearing the kind of exclamations, assertions, advisory and acquiescent remarks made by people awaiting their flight call: his comments reflect the traveller's waiting line attitude, his anticipation of the trip ahead, his superficial self-awareness in the padded chaos particular to airports.
karaart.com /swissart/artists/joly/berseta.html   (1524 words)

  
 Library of Congress Information Bulletin - February 19, 1996
Michel Butor has long been in the forefront of French writers who have collaborated with leading artists to produce books that are important for their artifactual as well as intellectual value.
Butor came to prominence in the 1950s with his early novels and his association with the New Novelists, writers whose technical experimentations with the literary novel form constituted the most important French literary phenomenon of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Butor's work has been characterized more as texts rather than novels and has been done in collaboration with artists, working with the visual and even tactile composition and perception of a text along with its intellectual aspects.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9603/butor.html   (573 words)

  
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Michel Butor has for a long time been regarded as one of the principal practitioners of the Nouveau roman.
This is essentially because his novels stress the conscious reintegration of the individual subject with ‘his’ cultural heritage, rather than the radical subversion of that culture by a body of new texts.
Butor is writing a representation of Delmont’s representation, but since the text contains nothing extraneous to the latter’s perspective, there is no obvious difference between the two levels.
english.fsu.edu /jobs/num03/Num3CeliaBritton.htm   (2440 words)

  
 In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew -Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Asterie Baker Provenzo- A new book from the University ...
Butor situates his writing outside the tradition of the nouveau roman and outside postmodernism, placing himself in the tradition of Rabelais, Montaigne, Pound, and Joyce, whose erudition and love of language infused their work with remarkable originality.
Butor himself worked with the editor and translator of this first English version of Transformation of Writing on questions of translation and annotation.
Her scholarly publications deal primarily with the works of Michel Butor (including translations of 6,180,000 litres d'eau par seconde and Frontières) and with fl francophone writers of the Antilles and West Africa.
www.upf.com /mkt/bigsale/old_books/oppenheim.html   (453 words)

  
 Michel Butor --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Butor studied at the Sorbonne and from 1951 to 1953 was a lecturer at the University of Manchester.
Butor, who regarded the novel as a blend of philosophy and poetry, owed much in his fiction to the influence of James Joyce.
Michel Butor presented his Mobile (1962) in the form of a small encyclopedia.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9018331   (936 words)

  
 Colomb Michel: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barbe Jeannes godparents were: Antoine Michel, ecuyer and Barbe Collemieu, daughter of Jacques...Rose Moyroud, Servan, J. Christin, Bourbon, Colomb, Degors veuve Colomb, and Estiennette Rolichet.
Michel Portais speculated that African...produced in the neighboring Colombian province of Putumayo (Poveda...neighboring Putumayo Province, Colombia, threaten to drive unprecedented...in other economic sectors.
COLOMB, MICHEL both: meshel koloN, c.1430 1512, French sculptor, one of the masters...tomb of Francis II, duke of Brittany (completed 1507; Nantes).
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/colomb-michel.jsp?l=C&p=7   (780 words)

  
 NYU > Office of Public Affairs > French Author Michel Butor Opens Exhibition at NYU's Fales Collection, Apr. 27   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Michel Butor, French novelist and essayist and one of the leading exponents of the nouveau roman, will open the exhibition, “Une Amitié Transatlantique: Michel Butor and Elinor Miller,” on Thursday, April 27, 5:30 p.m.
Butor, who turns 80 this year, will be interviewed by Tom Bishop, Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature at NYU and director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture, and by Lois Oppenheim, chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University.
Butor and Miller corresponded for 30 years, and Miller’s family recently donated the correspondence as well as Miller’s outstanding collection of Butor’s books to the Fales Collection.
www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/1036   (348 words)

  
 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
BUTOR, MICHEL [Butor, Michel], 1926-, French novelist and critic.
His technique involves the use of shifting time sequences, strong visual images, and the interior monologue.
Encyclopedia.com is a service of HighBeam Research, Inc.
www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:butor-mi   (109 words)

  
 Entretiens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Michel Butor; entretiens réunis, présentés et annotés par Henri Desoubeaux
Entretiens (Michel Butor; entretiens réunis, présentés et annotés par Henri Desoubeaux; ISBN: 2910686264; (v.
Frontiers (by Michel Butor; translated and with an introduction by Elinor S. Miller; part III translated in collaboration with Warren C. Miller; ISBN: 091778667X; 100% match)
isbndb.com /d/book/entretiens_a02.html   (247 words)

  
 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape: A Caprice
Like James Joyce's and Dylan Thomas's similar titles, Butor's novel is autobiographical in nature and explores the way a writer develops.
First published in 1967, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape may well be one of the most captivating works about the growth of a writer's imagination.
Butor is a formidable displacer; he folds Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, and The Thousand and One Nights together to create a giddy realm of multiplicities." (Word 6-95)
www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn1564780899   (592 words)

  
 Description de San Marco 
French novelist and essayist Michel Butor was one of the leading figures of 'le nouveau roman', together with writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon and Marguerite Duras.
An important element in Butor's work is the way he appeals to the reader to seek out the text’s meaning himself.
Mary Lydon, Perpetuum mobile: A study of the novels and aesthetics of Michel Butor.
www.kb.nl /bc/koopman/1961-1975/c58-en.html   (544 words)

  
 Michel Butor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Michel Butor is a French post-World War II writer.
Journalists and critics associated his novels with the "nouveau roman," but Butor himself has long (and rightly) resisted that association.
The main point of similarity is a general one: like the exponents of the "nouveau roman," he can be described as an experimental writer, and his early books were indeed in the tradition of the novel.
www.wmarea.com /data/Michel_Butor   (217 words)

  
 Ambroise Barras. « O.G.M. »: abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the wide history of combinatory literature and pre-computerized poetry, Michel Butor's Kit for a Don Juan occupies a relatively ambiguous position.
The method used here is far inspired by those of genetic critics: it is intended to establish the process through which, by diverse kinds of manipulation of cards, the author produced the series of verses the lector reads as a set of poems.
This inadequacy appears to be the key concept of what we would describe as the new textuality (and consequently the new legibility) of generative matrix works.
infolipo.unige.ch /ambroise/varcom/mabm/ogm_engl.html   (390 words)

  
 PEN American Center - Michel Butor
Michel Marie Francois Butor was born in Mons-en-Baroeul, France on September 14, 1926.
Butor’s novels include Passage de Milan, L'Emploi du Temps (Passing Time), La Modification (Second Thoughts), Degres, Mobile (Mobile: Study for a Representation of the U.S. Niagara: A Stereophonic Novel, and Boomerang.
Butor has also been active as a literary critic, producing a psychological study of Charles Baudelaire.
www.pen.org /page.php/prmID/1161   (101 words)

  
 press - Beddington Fine Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A moving display of original photographs by André Villers and poetry by Michel Butor combine to mark their time spent with Roselyne in June 1981 sharing the last days of an 150 year era of private ownership, prior to this beautiful property passing into the hands of Sean Connery.
Friends and collaborators on numerous projects, exhibitions and publications since their first meeting in 1973, Butor is inspired to write emotionally-charged verses on the trunks of trees in the château gardens, which Villers photographs, preserving them for posterity.
Guy and Michèle Beddington are delighted that André Villers and Michel Butor will be present at the opening, to which all are welcome.
beddingtonfineart.com /press   (258 words)

  
 La main sur le mur
Michel Butor first became known as the figurehead of the 'Nouveau roman', but recently he has only been writing poetry.
That collection is typical for Butor's ideas, as he considers 'the short form' of poetry a great advantage in such hasty times: 'Poetry is the haiku of daily life'.
André Clavel, 'Michel Butor: le poète horticulteur', in: Lire, (2004) 325, p.
www.kb.nl /bc/koopman/1976-1989/c74-en.html   (288 words)

  
 Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Michel Butor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MICHEL BUTOR: I like to explore, everything interests me. Within each book I explore something new, see various perspectives, consider certain themes.
AP: Michel Butor, you have partially answered my questions by your view of the writer as contributor to the cultural heritage of humanity, his reinterpretation of inherited wisdom for his time and the future.
After some time the name of Michel Butor appears in my text and it becomes in some way autobiographical.
www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_butor.html   (2525 words)

  
 Dalkey Archive Press: Michel Butor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michael Butor's Mobile is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America.
Butor weaves bits and pieces from these diverse sources into a collage resembling an abstract paining (the book is dedicated to Jackson Pollock) or a patchwork quilt that by turns is both humorous and quite disturbing.
Butor is a formidable displacer; he folds Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, and The Thousand and One Nights together to create a giddy realm of multiplicities."--Word
www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/butor.html   (940 words)

  
 The Spirit of Mediterranean Places:Butor, Michel; Davis, Lydia; Davis, Lydia:0810160528:eCampus.com
This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean.
Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt--where, when he was 24, Butor spent a year teaching French in a secondary school.
Michel Butor is one of the leading exponents of the avant-garde writing that emerged in France in the 1950s.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0810160528&referrer=yah04   (77 words)

  
 Paysages en poesie
Michel Butor was born in 1926 in a suburb of Lille.
After having studied literature and philosophy in Paris where he met many intellectuals, he left to teach in Egypt and had not since stopped travelling the world.
However, Butor refuses to be labelled and defends a free and independent literature.
www.paysages-en-poesie.ch /english/a116.html   (160 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Michel Butor (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Michel Butor (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Michel Butor[mEshel´ bUtOr´] Pronunciation Key, 1926–;, French novelist and critic.
As one of the chief exponents of the nouveau roman [new novel] (see French literature), Butor is less interested in the outcome of action in his novels than he is in the action itself.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Butor-Mi.html   (225 words)

  
 Michel BUTOR : astrology, horoscope, planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Chart
Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Michel BUTOR with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Michel BUTOR and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/q4xjJNbr8xtd.htm   (566 words)

  
 Butor, Michel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Le Japon depuis la France de M. Butor: un texte neo-japoniste tendu entre hypertexte et orientalisme.(neo-Japanese themes in books of French author Michel Butor)
Mixed Metaphors Michel Leiris Poet: Paradigm And The One Behind The Many.(Critical Essay)
Montaigne's 'Of the Incommoditie of Greatnesse.'.(French essayist Michel de Montaigne)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Butor-Mi.asp   (602 words)

  
 Site, citation et collaboration chez Michel Butor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Michael Spencer's dense and perceptive little book on Michel Butor has at its centre 'la notion de site ou de lieu ""réel" et vécu; le livre-objet et surtout la page comme foyer de rencontres textuelles; le livre aussi comme site d'intertextualité, de traduction et de réécriture' (9).
These two analyses are particularly detailed and specific, ranging in the first from descriptions of Butor's mise en page, which exploits typographic variants (italics, roman, capitals), variable margins, the architectonic arrangement of interrelated blocks of text corresponding to specific structural and thematic materials, through Joseph Frank, spatial form, and postmodernism.
As the reader 'learns' (creates) in reading the text, so does the author, his own first reader, participate in the pedagogical project which is the text.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/581/581_review_fleming.html   (424 words)

  
 French Culture | Books | Michel Butor: Degrees (Dalkey Archive Press Jan. 2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On Tuesday, October 12, 1954, Pierre Vernier, a teacher in a Paris lycée, begins setting down an account that is to be a complete record of the life lived by himself, his students, and his fellow teachers.
Degrees is an extraordinary novel exposing one man¹s obsessive project, the impossibility of its completion, and the damaging effect this obsession has on both Vernier and those who surround him.
By rejecting metaphor, emotion, most of the visceral, human content of the older novel, it looks comparatively empty; but it¹s also obvious that this emptying-out was necessary for it to achieve--rather like an abstract painting--its own special density.²
www.frenchculture.org /books/release/fiction/butordegrees.html   (298 words)

  
 Michel Butor Papers 1981-1983.
Much of the correspondence concerns his American teaching and lecture engagements, primarily at the University of Louisville.
There are also letters from his colleagues in France, including Françoise Van Rossum-Guyon, with a copy of her Introduction to an edition of Balzac's LE PÈRE GORIOT with Butor's critical letter for the publisher.
There are critical and biographical manuscripts about Butor, and several printed works, each inscribed with a note by its author.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4078571.html   (140 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Butor Michel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Butor Michel
The nouveau roman (new novel) of the 1950s and 1960s, exemplified by Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Nathalie Sarraute, did...
Michel, Hartmut (1948- ), German chemist, co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber, for their work...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Butor_Michel.html   (120 words)

  
 Universitaire Pers Leuven :: Catalogus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For this first publication, a deliberate choice was made for a multidisciplinary approach: a confrontation with four authors, each presenting their views on music based on their own specific backgrounds.
In Writing for musicians (Ecrire pour les musiciens) author Michel Butor presents a highly individual reflection on the potential relations between language and music.
Based on his own work and examples from history, he illustrates how intensely - and often in very surprising ways - the two phenomena are interwoven with each other, not only in songs and opera, but also in purely instrumental music.
www.kuleuven.ac.be /upers/catalogue/book_detail.php?Id=762   (342 words)

  
 Contemporary Literary Criticism | Michel Butor | Mary Beth Pringle (essay date fall 1985)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
“Butor's Room without a View: The Train Compartment in La Modification.
[In the following essay, Pringle contends that the train compartment in Butor's La Modification signifies a “microcosm within a microcosm” and reflects the protagonist's view of and relationship to the larger world.
Twentieth-century novelists frequently use train compartments to represent microcosms of...
www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/michel-butor/mary-beth-pringle-essay-date-fall?print=1   (72 words)

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