D’une hétérotopie à l’autre où le vagabondage au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un an)

Simona Jişa

Université Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca , Roumanie


Résumé

Jean Echenoz’s text presents Victoria’s story who runs away from Paris, believing that she has killed her lover. Her straying (that embraces the form of a relative deterritorialization in a Deleuzian sense) lasts one year and it is built up geographically upon a descent (more or less symbolical) to the South of France and, after that, she comes back to Paris and encloses the spatial and textual curl. From a spatial point of view, she turns into a heterotopia (Foucault) every place where she is located, fact that reflects her incapability of constituting a personal, intimate space. The railway stations, the trains, the hotels, the improvised houses of those with no fixed abode are turning, according to Marc Augé’s terminology, into a « non-lieux » that excludes human being. Her vagrancy is characterized through a continuous flight from police and people and through a continuous decrease of her standard of living and dignity. It’s not about a quest of oneself, but about a loss of oneself. Urged by a strong feeling of culpability, her vagrancy is a self-punishment that comes to an end when the concerns of her problems disappear and she finds out that her lover is alive.

Mots-clés :

vagrancy, heterotopias, non-places, culpability, novel

Augé M. 1992. Non-Lieux, introduction à une anthropologie de la surmodernité. Paris. Seuil.

Echenoz J. 1997. Un an. Paris. Minuit.

Foucault M. 1984. Des espaces autres (conférence au Cercle d’études architecturales, 14 mars 1967). Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité. 5. 46-49.
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2014-12-30


Jişa, S. « D’une hétérotopie à l’autre Où Le Vagabondage Au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un An) ». Quêtes littéraires, nᵒ 4, décembre 2014, p. 156-63, doi:10.31743/ql.4583.

Simona Jişa  simonajisa@yahoo.fr
Université Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca



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