D’une hétérotopie à l’autre où le vagabondage au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un an)
Simona Jişa
Université Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca , RoumanieRésumé
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, novelRéférences
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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