Guillaume Bouchet wrote 36 conversations which he presents as taking place in Poitou at convivial evening gatherings (or ‘Serées’). Each conversation has a theme. That of the sixteenth Serée (first published in 1597) is dreams. The debate is triggered as usual by an incident that has just occurred within the fictional frame: the host refused to invite someone that evening who had turned up earlier in the day and tried to cadge an invitation by claiming to have dreamed that the host was roasting a pig (as indeed he was). The debate proceeds smoothly, but after several pages it is rudely interrupted by a wisecracker, described as ‘vilain’. He is intent on telling everyone about a recent dream in which he soiled himself. This disgusts the listeners and disrupts the erudite exchange of learned commonplaces about dreams. Unusually for an event within the fictional frame of one Serée, it also occasions the theme of the next one, which begins with the assembled guests refusing to sit nearer the joker in case he still smells. Bouchet uses this vilain figure to foster the distinctively unsettling but constructive epistemology of the Serées, and to represent knowing as inseparable from having a body, from having faculties that straddle body and mind, and from being a social animal.

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知识的恶臭：Guillaume Bouchet的《 LesSerées》中的《 Vlain Dreamer》

纪尧姆·布歇（Guillaume Bouchet）写了36场对话，他介绍说是在欢乐的夜晚聚会（或称“塞里斯”）在普瓦图举行的。每个对话都有一个主题。第十六届Serée（1597年首次出版）的梦想。辩论通常是由虚构框架内发生的事件引发的：主持人拒绝邀请当天傍晚出现的某个晚上，并声称自己梦见主持人在烧烤，以试图拖延邀请一头猪（确实是他）。辩论进行得很顺利，但经过数页的讨论后，被胡桃夹子断断续续地打断了，被称为“恶棍”。他打算告诉每个人他最近弄脏自己的一个梦。这使听众感到反感，并扰乱了学到的关于梦的常识的博学交流。对于一个Serée的虚构框架中的事件，通常还会出现下一个主题，这始于聚集的客人拒绝坐在小丑旁边，以防他仍然闻到气味。鲍切特（Bouchet）用这个this懒的人物来培养塞雷族人独特的，令人不安的但具有建设性的认识论，并表示知道与拥有身体，拥有跨越身心的能力以及成为社交动物密不可分。