Hélène Bessette, an Artist without Limits ?

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  • Marianne Camus Université de Bourgogne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.6.26256

Keywords:

poetic prose, intermediality, total work of art

Abstract

The work of Hélène Bessette (1918 -2000) is a permanent experimentation that does away with all limits. She transgresses all the rules of decorum and never censures an opinion. She ignores all the rules established by centuries of literary and editorial practice. Dramatic effects, nursery rhymes, political and advertising slogans, characterisation are all, as it were, joyfully high jacked. She writes a type of poetic prose that makes one think of a vocal or a musical score. The associations and shifts of sounds, the breaks and silences construct a breathing text, peaceful at times, at other times almost out of breath. The variations in script and typographical layout, also idiosyncratic, play their part, through their visual impact, in the total work of art Bessette is aiming at.

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Author Biography

Marianne Camus, Université de Bourgogne

Maîtresse de conférences Université de Besançon 1996-2003, Professeure des Universités Dijon 2003-2011, spécialiste de l’analyse des discours représentant les femmes et des représentations du monde et d’elles-mêmes par les femmes. A animé un groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire (littérature, arts visuels, danse, performance, etc.), « Création au féminin ». A publié livres et articles sur ces sujets. Depuis chercheuse et conférencière indépendante.

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Bessette, H. (2009). Ida ou le délire. Léo Scheer.

Bessette, H. (2021). La Tour. Le Nouvel Attila.

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Bessette, H. (2020). Lili pleure. Le Nouvel Attila.

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Published

2023-06-29

How to Cite

Camus, M. (2023). Hélène Bessette, an Artist without Limits ?. HYBRIDA, (6), 77–94. https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.6.26256
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No. 6: LIMES

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LIMES

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