On annotation or… on salt in literature
Andréas Pfersmann’s study offers a history of literary notes and – advancing new categories and concepts – he delineates a poetics of a “prose notulaire”. The critical and narrative valences of annotations are featured in a discourse observant of the history of literary forms but also of the context that generated them.
The metamorphoses of annotations, understood as the “metaleptic salt” of literature, are analysed from a comparatist perspective beginning with the 17th century and up to the present day.
Keywords: literary annotation, metalepsis, critical spirit, ludic spirit, self-reflexivity.
