Articles
Published 01/10/2019
Keywords
- Philippe Forest,
- narration,
- architecture,
- cartography,
- proof
How to Cite
Commans, J. (2019). Au pied du mur. Les architectures narratives chez Philippe Forest. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 26(3). Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/102
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Abstract
The Borobudur Temple and the torii of Nagasaki are among the numerous monuments and buildings that illustrate the cartography of Philippe Forest’s novels. From L’Enfant éternel (1997) to Crue (2016), a tireless narrator, father of a lost child, strides across the world, in order to reach the reality and the impossible by other means, once his back is against the wall. The article makes an inventory and defines the proof, in multiple senses of the term, resulting from this narrative architecture.