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In her introduction, Simonet-Tenant addresses the question of the diversity of the genre--of literary and non-literary, professional or personal, texts --and the concomitant problem of structuring a coherent and comprehensive critical analysis. The problem of generic classification of the journal intime is centered in its unifying identity of temporal immediacy, autoreflexivity, and singular textual existence, rather than its narrative structure or the purpose of its content. The author acknowledges the recent proliferation of media formats, and chooses to limit her study to the printed text. She [End Page 948] traces the source of the genre to medieval commerce and prayers, then the press, then private accounts, and raises the problem of what to call the author: journaliste/diariste/intimiste. In fact, the French term journal intime, which distinguishes it from the public press newspaper, gains a critical confessional value judgment missing in the English "diary." André Gide has the honor of first denoting his journal as intime, necessitated by the ambiguity of his public/private sexual personae. Simonet-Tenant notes as well that professional memoirs are obviously for public consumption, personal rather thanintimate or private. Turned outward, the journal becomes extime, a chronicle of an era.
In attempting a generic definition of the journal intime, and distinguishing it from autobiography, with its retrospective metadiscursive narrator, the author includes frequent references to the extant body of well-known criticism and theory, including Lejeune, Didier, Barthes, Gusdorf, Girard, Lecarme, Genette, Rousset, and Beneveniste. She illustrates, using thirty-five writers' journals, the subgenres of album, agenda, cahier, carnet. She addresses the question of the diary binding, which gives it context, body, continuity, portability, even lock and key. She catalogues the writing instruments: quill, ballpoint, felt-tip, typewriter, computer, internet page. In answer to "Who narrates?" she affirms first-person subjectivity irrespective of the subject pronoun. The disguise can be carried to the use of codes, symbols, or foreign language for secrecy and discretion. She acknowledges Samuel Pepys as the patriarch of diarists, and notes that the originality of handwritten diaries, like art, folding, or calligrams, is lost in publication.
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