The literary game and its unfoldings

Abstract

This article proposes to think of literary writing as playing, based on a critical reflection on certain associated notions or concepts, primarily those of writing and reading. Likewise, it reviews the conceptual expansion that entailed the notion of text in the 1960s, the classic category of intertext, as well as the newest idea of word or the recently rediscovered one of tras-text, and finally that of fiction, in order to analyze how these interact to give substance to the game of literary writing. How to think about the unfolded act of writing and reading, constitutive of the literary game, in its complexity and in its relationship with time? The emphasis placed on this or that parameter of the relationship leads to successively or simultaneously considering a theory of reading as a game, promoted to the rank of literary reading, a playful theory of writing-reading and a playful oscillation of the theory itself.