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Record W3137904170 · doi:10.1353/tfr.2011.0260

Noir blanc nabis by Diane-Ischa Ross

2011· article· en· W3137904170 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Aaron Prevots

Bibliographic record

Venue˜The œFrench review · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWifeArtComedyLiteraturePhilosophyTheology

Abstract

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to write to Efina long after he has stopped mailing any of his letters. His lack of inner substance is prefigured when we first see him, for he is playing two entirely different roles in a one-man play. Efina is less fully characterized, but she too seems more wrapped up in her own preoccupations than interested in the person who seems to obsess her. Yet theirs is a durable if unstable relationship, durable because they cannot let go of their images of each other but unstable because those images do not correspond to reality. This is a sad situation, but it also lends itself to comedy, as when they write a series of letters containing such sentences as “Madame [...] Comment allez-vous ce matin. Je m’ennuie de votre visage et de votre sale caractère” (36). The narrator takes the viewpoint of first one of them, then the other. When one of Efina’s lovers is directing T in a play, we are told, “Elle ne souhaite plus revoir T, mais elle est obligée d’apparaître, puisqu’elle est l’amie du garçon” (33). In fact, it is clear to the reader that she wants to see T again, and also that she wants to make him jealous of her new, younger lover. This is Revaz’s second novel. Her first, Rapport aux bêtes, was an interior monologue by an uneducated farmer who brutalizes his wife but ultimately comes to appreciate her. It won several literary prizes, was twice adapted for the theater, and was the basis of the Swiss film Cœur animal. Rapport is more brutal than Efina but has a more hopeful ending. That may indicate that life in the theater is more hazardous to true love than life on the farm. College of San Mateo (CA) Susan Petit ROSS, DIANE-ISCHA. Noir blanc nabis. Montréal: Triptyque, 2009. ISBN 978-2-89031656 -0. Pp. 87. $15 Can. Poète et essayiste québécoise, Diane-Ischa Ross signe avec ce troisième recueil aux Editions Triptyque un enchaînement de courts textes où se poursuit avec un mélange de légèreté et de mélancolie la traversée d’un monde ressenti comme en rêve mais dont les routes sont jalonnées de choses quotidiennes. La beauté de Noir blanc nabis se situe dans le timbre de sa voix. Dans cet énigmatique pays des merveilles contemporain dont “la pente est raide” (9), un équilibre s’établit dès le début entre la précision des descriptions et une marge laissée au lecteur pour s’y repérer à son tour. Comme son titre, qui évoque l’art pictural tout en étant une suite de sons enjouée et peut-être indéchiffrable, ce livre élégant crée un espace où l’on voyage avec les mots et l’on admire “la durée” qu’ils “occupe[nt]” (38). Il y a du Michaux dedans, certes, mais aussi un va-et-vient agréable entre le réel et l’irréel, le concret et l’abstrait, mis en place par exemple dans l’épigraphe: “Aux chasseurs de dahu et à ceux qui fréquentent des êtres fantasmatiques, zoomorphes , anthropomorphes ou qui ont la forme de petits bouts de choses anonymes et cassées, mes vœux de bon courage et de haute chance”. Ross nous signale tantôt “la terre” et “le soleil”, le “début du monde” et le “chemin de ciel battu” (9, 21), tantôt “les bobos rouges sur les seins noirs” (11) et “un personnage mouillé sur le trottoir” (54). Il y est question de mémoires “volantes” (12) ou qui se font manger (38), donc qui ne veulent pas trop se laisser contempler, mais aussi d’émotion, celle qui va éclore pendant que l’on attend qu’autre chose se passe ou qu’arrive enfin “cet Autre-là [...] qui peut casser / et nous avec lui” (33). La mise en page au sens le plus large du terme nous aide à vivre ce temps suspendu et à remarquer la transformation de l’écriture en une provisoire mise 622 FRENCH REVIEW 84.3 entre parenth...

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score0.807

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2410.128

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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