What is literature?
From Sartre’s commitment to Deleuze’s fable
Keywords:
Deleuze, Sartre, Literature, stateAbstract
Independently of the ideas we do about literature, Sartre founds for us the question on literary commitment, that is, the one about the encounter between writer’s look and the look of the outcasts of society. Sartre seems to anticipate what subsequent philosophy would take as an imperative to thought: find, through expression, a way to agency the multitude without betray the differences which constitute it as such. That will be the case of Gilles Deleuze, who regains Sartre’s idea of expression as something more than a sublimation of our failed desires. An idea of expression as multiplier of possibility, on conditions that make impossible any change, that convert writing, talking, thinking, into political events of first order, beyond estate theories and consensus doctrines.
