Daniel Ferrer



Daniel Ferrer is Director of Research at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS-ENS) in Paris. He is editor of the journal Genesis. The books he has published include Post-structuralist Joyce; Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language; Ulysse à l’article: Joyce aux marges du roman ; Writing its own wrunes for ever: Essays in Joycean Genetics; Pourquoi la critique génétique? Méthodes, théories ; Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-texte; La Textologie russe. With Vincent Deane and Geert Lernout, he is currently editing the Finnegans Wake notebooks.




ABSTRACT
Writing in the margin


Although Joyce does not strictly belong to the category of marginalist annotators, although he is not one of those writers whose margins display an explicit dialogue with the text, a lot of writing events occur on the periphery of his pages. Indeed, parodying Pascal's definition of God, it could be said that in his manuscripts, the center is nowhere and the margin everywhere, suggesting the idea of an absolute marginality of writing.


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