Saussurian library à la Borges
An invitation
Abstract
Reflect on the work of Ferdinand de Saussure implies referring to the problem of notions of corpus and archive in what concerns about the heterogeneous set of publications that were published by Saussure and attributed to him. Starting from this problematic and inspired by a Borges short story, “A Biblioteca de Babel”, in this article, we seek to propose a reflection on the permanence of the Course in General Linguistics and its inconstancy, as well as on its capacity to be reinvented and to maintain itself present for more than a century. We will also reflect on the hard work of researchers who have been dedicated to the study of this complex heterogeneous set of texts to which is attributed to Saussure. In the style of a library (like Babel à la Borges), we organized our text by shelves (of hexagonal galleries) to try to understand the vastness and complexity of the set of works and documents attributed to Saussure.
Keywords: History. Memory. Corpus. Archive. Manuscripts.
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