Chute et éveil du corps dans les dystopies. "Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes" de Jacqueline Harpman et "Choir" d’Éric Chevillard
(2019) Études littéraires — Vol. 48, n° 3, p. 37-49 (2019)
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- (en) The deserted and empty land of "Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes" (Jacqueline Harpman, 1995) and the grey island, named "Choir", of the novel of the same name (Éric Chevillard, 2010) are places whose roots have been cut off cleanly, and which these novels of solitude use to question the reader's present relationship to his environment. Nature delivers itself to man in a raw and austere way: the body suddenly becomes present, heavy and serious, the ultimate place and the ultimate piece of nature within these devastated landscapes. The survivors thus experience the total - and forced - loss of distance with nature; this loss of distance is narrated through the motif of the fall (physical and symbolic) of humanity after a catastrophe. This article thus questions the nature of the relationship between a devastated environment and the surviving body.
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Pagacz, L. (2019). Chute et éveil du corps dans les dystopies. “Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes” de Jacqueline Harpman et “Choir” d’Éric Chevillard. Études littéraires, 48(3), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.7202/1061858ar (Original work published 2019)