« Transactions photolittéraires dans les Œuvres romanesques croisées d’Aragon et Elsa Triolet »
Résumé
The forty-two volumes of the Œuvres romanesques croisées were published over ten years, from 1964 to 1974. They are a particularly appropriate object to study the interplay of photoliterary transactions at work in the production of a creative couple. The very deliberate arrangement of the work constructs a double – or dual – author figure that allows a reconfiguration of earlier fictional productions, the last novels written during the time of production then two novelists’ novels, by including images that no longer serve an illustrative purpose. Collaborations with Matisse, Giacometti, Chagall, Doisneau, Bruno Barbey or Man Ray enable meaningful interactions between text and images. In the context of their publishing, the Œuvres romanesques croisées seem not to enact the writing of an adventure, but rather to offer the recipient the adventure – adventurus – of a vision/reading.