Towards new comparisons Gérard Bessette's "Le libraire" and Albert Camus "L'étranger" a transtextual study
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Abstract
This work presents a transtextual reading of Gérard Bessette's Le libraire through the examination of its different textual relationships, among them those to Albert Camus's L'étranger. The relationship between Le libraire and L'étranger is still ambiguous and has often been subject to misreading. It has also been overstated in comparison to Le Libraire 's relatedness to Jean Paul Sartre's La nausée and Jean Charles Harvey's Les demi-civilisés. The transtextual reading of Le Libraire comes as an alternative to the contemporary--but traditional--comparisons of this novel to Camus' L'étranger. This thesis analyses the novels in terms of textual relationships rather than reading them in traditional comparative terms such as influence or originality. First, by discussing the discrepancy between influence and intertextuality, it foregrounds a theoretical approach allowing for an objective reading of Le libraire 's relatedness to L'étranger. In the second place, it reviews some Canadian comparisons of Le libraire and L'étranger and distinguishes between traditional approaches and those which tend to be intertextual. Finally, my attempt to bring forward new comparisons is designed to avoid the different misinterpretations of Le libraire 's relatedness to L'étranger. The relationship between these two novels is more objectively evaluated when studied in relation to Le libraire 's evocation of other novels such as La nausée and Les demi-civilisés. The use of Gérard Genette's taxonomy of intertextual/hypertextual relationships as a method of practical analysis based on textual transformations demonstrates that Le libraire 's textual relationships are diverse and hence demystifies the overstatement and misreading of the novel's relatedness to L'étranger.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".