Michel Butor

La modification 

récit

Le retour du boomerang

Changing Track

"Mobile is not only a memorable experience, accomplishing that rich task of all true art providing the reader with new eyes but it is also work which fellow writers and artists can profit from because it supplies the best of all ingredients: stimulation." New York Herald Tribune

Mobile

Le réalisme mythologique de Michel Butor

La modification

I løbet af en nat sker der i en parisisk beboelsesejendom en række hændelser, der ændrer livet for beboerne

roman

Passage de Milan

On Tuesday, October 12, 1954, Pierre Vernier, a teacher in a Paris lyc'e, begins setting down an account that is to be a complete record of the life lived by himself, his students, and his fellow teachers. He begins by meticulously recording what he already knows of his students, their relationships to one another, and the books they're studying. Then he's forced to enlist his nephew--who's in his class--to report on the private lives of the other boys. To record all reality, he must know all that has passed, is passing, and will pass through his pupils' minds. Degrees is an extraordinary novel exposing one man's obsessive project, the impossibility of its completion, and the damaging effect this obsession has on both Vernier and those who surround him.

Degrees

L'emploi du temps

Passing Time

On Kawara

Horizontality

Libation

Elinor S. Miller

And Michel Butor's "Guirlande Liminaire" : Introductory Study

"Michel Butor Et Ses Peintres", Catalogue

"On Tuesday, October 12, 1954, Pierre Vernier, a teacher in a Paris lycee, begins writing what he wants to be the complete record of his life, his students, and his fellow teachers. He begins by meticulously documenting the facts he already knows about his students - their names, ages, the relationships among them, and the books they're studying. Then he enlists his nephew - a student in his class - to report on the private lives of the other boys. He then studies the school manuals for every subject and class these students are taking - for to record all reality, he must know all that has passed, is passing, and will pass through his students' minds. But Vernier finds that the core of what he actually knows is useless unless he can spin around it a concentric web of larger suppositions, endowed with varying "degrees" of truth. Relying on his nephew's information, he writes Part Two of his manuscript as if it were being written by his nephew. Finally, in Part Three, the raw material of life overwhelms his delicate literary structure, thus exposing the impossibility of his obsession and the damaging effect this obsession has on both himself and those who surround him."--Jacket.

A Novel

Essay on a Dream of Baudelaire's

Histoire Extraordinaire

Jean Vincent

Diego Giacometti

Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene

Travaux D'approche

Frederic Chase St. Aubyn

A table of contents for a proposed study of Butor. Butor has corrected in his own hand the dates ascribed to several of his works listed (see St. Aubyn's letter 1985 Mar. 5 to JNG).

Michel Butor, Restless Experimenter

Time Table

Jean ROUDAUT

Michel Butor, Ou Le Livre Futur. Proposition

Michel Butor

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