Tel Quel
Template:About Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox magazine Tel Quel (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982.
History and profileEdit
Tel Quel was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sollers<ref name=rich>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=gal>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Jean-Edern Hallier and published by Éditions du Seuil. Important essays working towards post-structuralism and deconstruction appeared here. Publication ceased in 1982, and the journal was succeeded by L'Infini under Sollers's continued editorship.<ref name="gal"/>
Though the journal originally published essays more in line with what current literary theory calls "structuralism," it would eventually feature work that reflected the revaluation of literary, artistic, and music criticism that began in France in the 1960s.<ref name=rich/>
The editors committee included Philippe Sollers, Jean-Edern Hallier, Jean-René Huguenin, Jean Ricardou, Jean Thibaudeau, Michel Deguy, Marcelin Pleynet, Denis Roche, Jean-Louis Baudry, Jean-Pierre Faye, Jacqueline Risset, François Wahl, and Julia Kristeva (married to Philippe Sollers since 1967).
Authors and collaborators include Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cayrol, Jean-Pierre Faye, Shoshana Felman
In 1971 the journal broke with the French Communist Party and declared its support for Maoism. In 1974 the editorial members Philippe Sollers, Marcelin Pleynet, François Wahl, Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva visited China.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The trip, which was tightly organized by Chinese government officials, would later be processed in several essays and books by the participants. In the autumn of 1976 the journal explicitly distanced itself from Maoism.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Tel Quel featured a special section for terrorism in Italy in 1978, and Maria Antonietta Macciocchi and Leonardo Sciascia were among the contributors of the section.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Patrick Ffrench and Roland-François Lack (eds.), The Tel Quel Reader (London: Routledge, 1998)
- Patrick Ffrench, The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960-1983) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
- Philippe Forest, Histoire de Tel quel: 1960-1982 (Éditions du Seuil, 1995)
- Niilo Kauppi, The Making of an Avant-Garde: Tel Quel (Mouton de Gruyter, 1994)
External linksEdit
- Several articles in English
- Interview with the Tel Quel founding group (video, 6 April 1963).
- Tel Quel - Notities bij Het plezier van de tekst from taalfilosofie.nl (in Dutch)
- Plus à propos de Tel Quel sur pileface.com/sollers (in French)