“When she awoke, a shower of raw flesh had fallen in the field.” Profusion et déliquescence dans « Any Corpse » de Brian Evenson
The characters in Brian Evenson’s short story “Any Corpse” wander a decaying world: bits and pieces of corpses are rotting in an inhospitable landscape solely consisting of barren fields. As survivors of a disaster that is never explained, they set to no avail on a quest for knowledge ending in bli...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Language: | Français |
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The characters in Brian Evenson’s short story “Any Corpse” wander a decaying world: bits and pieces of corpses are rotting in an inhospitable landscape solely consisting of barren fields. As survivors of a disaster that is never explained, they set to no avail on a quest for knowledge ending in blinding scenes of violence and murder. The use of abundant details in the short story leads to profuse close-ups of a putrefying world, while provoking a linguistic and sensory proliferation that triggers a reaction from the reader. He/she then experiences an act of reading marked by profusion. |
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