pour lire La disparition de Perec, en néerlandais, 3 (la lettre volée)

© William Kentridge

" .. On peut être sûr, quand on prend un de ces proverbes attribués à la sagesse des nations .., de tomber sur une stupidité. Verba volant, scripta manent. Avez-vous réfléchi qu’une lettre, c’est justement une parole qui vole? S’il peut y avoir une lettre volée, c’est qu’une lettre est une feuille volante. Ce sont les scripta qui volant, alors que les paroles, hélas, restent. Elles restent même quand personne ne s’en souvient plus .. " 

(Jacques Lacan, Le séminaire II, Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse, 1954-1955, 232)

pour lire La disparition de Perec, en néerlandais, 2 (The purloined letter)

Edgar Allan Poe

" .. it depends upon this, replied Dupin, the Prefect and his cohort fail so frequently .. by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged. They consider only their own ideas of ingenuity; and, in searching for anything hidden, advert only to the modes in which they would have hidden it. They are right in this much--that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them, of course. This always happens when it is above their own, and very usually when it is below. They have no variation of principle in their investigations ..”

(Edgar Allan Poe, uit: The purloined letter)