NOTES ON THE PRESENT OF THE CONCEPT OF DISCURSIVE FORMATION

This paper aims to discuss some points on the concept of discursive formation’s formulation and application. I elaborate my point by putting in relation three French texts equally stated in Brazilian soil. Jean-Jacques Courtine, Jacques Guilhaumou and Dominique Maingueneau separately wrote each one of these three texts. Moreover, I have not randomly chosen their names: they are three authors who constitute concepts across theoretical formulations of Discourse Analysis in France, and, because of that, they are often cited in order to keep this area of knowledge in Brazil. So that my argument is justified by the need of analyzing, throughout the meeting of those three statements, an attempt to define the current status of the concept of discursive formation to the historical a priori for the Discourse Analysis’ discourse in Brazil. In order to be guaranteed of some theoretical approach, I turn my attention to the famous conference by Michel Foucault (1971), L’ordre du discours, in which he exposes four principles to examine the statement’s function of existence: specificity, inversion, discontinuity, and exteriority. Underlining the principle of specificity of a statement through the series of statements, I aim to demonstrate that a concept’s circulation does not depend on an ontological truth, or on a founding text, or on the specificity of a father; it is determined by the will to truth, which offers historical conditions to the underlying discursive practices.

A Terceira Margem do Rio e o Realismo Fantástico da Revista Planète

Ao ler a correspondência de João Guimarães Rosa com seu tradutor francês, Jean-Jacques Villard, surpreendi-me ao descobrir que um de seus contos mais conhecidos, A terceira margem do rio, havia sido publicado na revista Planète, editada pelos pais do realismo fantástico Louis Pauwels e Jacques Bergier. A revista, criada na esteira da comoção provocada por O despertar dos mágicos, colocava-se, antes de tudo, contra o positivismo científico dominante na época e levava em conta os fenômenos paranormais, a alquimia, as capacidades inexploradas do cérebro humano. “Rien de ce qui est étrange ne nous est étranger ” era o lema da revista. Neste artigo, pretendemos, por um lado, contar a estória da publicação e da tradução desse conto e, por outro, pensar esse fenômeno como integrado ao modo como as obras de Guimarães Rosa foram recebidas na França dos anos 1960.