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Chance in literature.

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Le tarot n'est pas qu'un jeu, c'est aussi un outil de divination. Il incarne la rencontre entre le hasard, les lois de la probabilité et l'espoir de prédire l'avenir. Dans Le Château des destins croisés, Italo Calvino n'a-t-il pas fait des cartes de tarot les instruments dont se servent des personnages privés de la parole pour raconter leur histoire ? De l'art divinatoire aux mathématiques, des jeux à la littérature, ce livre explore des activités de l'esprit à première vue sans lien les unes avec les autres, mais qu'a déjà rapprochées une longue tradition intellectuelle, de Leibniz à Colas Duflo en passant par Simone Weil. Se croisent et dialoguent des prophéties touarègues empreintes d'arithmétique et des écrivains de l'Oulipo, des machines à roues et des mathématiciens illustres. Invitation à se perdre dans les sentiers qui conduisent du "pile ou face" à l'écriture romanesque, ce voyage dans le temps et l'espace est aussi une manière de regarder autrement l'ordre des savoirs et du monde.

Hasard --- Divination --- Philosophie. --- Chance --- Chance in literature

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Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. It is a vital aspect of the way we experience the world, and yet its function is frequently marginalised and downplayed.  Offering a new reading of the development of the novel during the mid-twentieth century, Jordan argues that this simple novelistic paradox became more pressing during a period in which chance became a cultural, scientific and literary preoccupation - through scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, the influence of existential philosophy, the growth of gambling, and the uncertainty provoked by the Second World War. In tracing the novel's representation of chance during this crucial period, we see both the development of the novel, and draw wider conclusions about the relationship between narrative and the contingent, the arbitrary and the uncertain. While the novel had historically rejected, marginalised or undermined chance, during this period it becomes a creative and welcome co-contributor to the novel's development, as writers such as Samuel Beckett, B.S. Johnson, Henry Green and Iris Murdoch show.

English fiction --- Chance in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Fiction. --- Chance in literature --- Roman --- Hasard dans la littérature

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Chance in literature. --- English fiction --- Magic in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism.