Articles

In a response to Christian Bök's Xenotext project, Majzels argues that rather than imposing a human text on a genetic nucleotide, we might try to listen to the Other organism's poem.

The advantages of writing in English in Québec: the making strange of one's own language opens up possibilities for new forms and heightened language.

In a time of war, terrible injustice, and false leaders, how should the writer and/or Jew act (“…car le judaïsme et l’écriture ne sont qu’une même attente, un même espoir, une même usure,” Jabès)? A contemporary writer might turn to Abraham Abulafia, the late 13^th century Kabbalist for a possible response. Abulafia developed a speculative system with the goal of attaining the World to Come, and a technique involving the permutation of the letters of the alphabet (tzeruf). Abulafia offers a rabbinical vision of language as a continual exercise of metonymical displacement. The disruption of the codes of grammar and language served not only the task of creation (a by-product of Kabbalist meditation is the simulacra of life referred to as golem) which has already been compared to the artistic act. However, I want to suggest it can also serve to undo the golem gone mad — a soulless being wreaking havoc, a socially constructed self subjugated to the norms and prejudices of its society, or even a murderous, war mongering, false president.

Le livre existe seulement dans les rapports entre le lecteur et l'écrivain, dans ce bref instant où les lettres se mettent à tourner comme les grandes roues des anges, flamboyantes de sens pour s'envoler en cendres. Ce moment-là, cet éphémère au vol, c’est le livre.

A call for a writing practice propelled by an imagination not restricted by literary institutions such as prizes, contests, literary magazines, journals, mainstream, small and micro presses, creative writing workshops.

L’écriture anglophone au Québec a certainement joué un rôle historique important au Canada, aux niveaux littéraire, politique et social, même si on peut débattre la nature de ce rôle, particulièrement en ce qui concerne la représentation du Québec au Canada et ailleurs.