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In-citation or Citing to Incite Thought
This article endeavours to understand the birth of an idea, the way it redefines itself and gains attention, through a reading of Cioran’s Cahiers. The idea is more precisely to analyse the roles played by a number of citations in the genesis of the title De l’inconvénient d’être né (« On the inconvenience of having been born »). The point of departure is no longer really in inter-textuality but rather in the literary theories which understand citation as a « filter » in the interpretation of texts (Michel Charles) or in life as aesthetic conduct (Marielle Macé), and further even in the philosophies which look at the appearance and circulation of ideas, such as that of Pierre Pachet for whom literature is essentially the « business » of ideas, and that of Paul Audi who focuses on the « becoming-an-author », on the way an idea is appropriated and lived.