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a film by Benoît Labourdette

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The Example

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From a text by Georges Raillard

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Every great work of art

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is revolutionary,
denouncing.

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Not so much by
its literal messages

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- its explicit philosophy,

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the slogans
it can launch,

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the politic
 it advocates -

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but by a subversion

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of our image of reality

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provoked by the whole work.

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There is no shortage of examples
in contemporary literature

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of these novels, which were intended
to be sowers of revolution

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and whose literary conservatism
condemned them to ineffectiveness.

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On the other hand, Balzac himself
provides an example of a distortion

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between the conservative goal
he was aiming for

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(the defence of the throne
and the altar)

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and the result achieved
by "The Comédie humaine",

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which Butor
explains as follows:

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“The immense movement
of the work of art

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provokes a kind of ploughing,

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a revolution
in the image of reality

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that leads it well beyond, politically,
than the proposed goal first of all”.

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Image, music, voice, director
Benoît Labourdette

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Quote of the text "The Example"
by Georges Raillard

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(published in Michel Butor’s
“The Timetable”, 10|18,1972)

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thanks to Clémentine Rozier

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2018