Malcolm Lowry : Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid et Under the Volcano ou les liaisons vertigineuses entre décor et envers du décor
Dark as the Grave first appears as a novel exploring the other side of Under the Volcano, Sigbjørn Wilderness, Lowry’s slightly disguised fictional alter ego, coming back to Mexico where the events that gave rise to the writing of Under the Volcano took place. However this investigation into how the...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_7131 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.7131 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.7131 fr https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/7131 2019-06-17T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe99 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Malcolm Lowry : Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid et Under the Volcano ou les liaisons vertigineuses entre décor et envers du décor Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Delesalle, Catherine Dark as the Grave first appears as a novel exploring the other side of Under the Volcano, Sigbjørn Wilderness, Lowry’s slightly disguised fictional alter ego, coming back to Mexico where the events that gave rise to the writing of Under the Volcano took place. However this investigation into how the novel came into being, meant to grant the protagonist control over his work and his past, proves a dizzying fall into a bottomless pit. Metafictional embedding and the endless network of identifications blur all landmarks and borders between reality and fiction, thus undermining the very foundations of representation and the Platonic distinction between model and copy. In spite of the protagonists’ successful journey on the diegetic level, Dark as the Grave, which makes the reader experience chaos and confronts him with what Deleuze terms « effondement », appears as a truly experimental novel which calls all borders into question. Dark as the Grave se présente comme un roman sur l’envers du décor d’Under the Volcano, Sigbjørn Wilderness, alter ego à peine déguisé de Lowry, revenant avec son épouse sur les lieux qui ont inspiré l’écriture du chef d’œuvre de Lowry. Cependant le retour sur la genèse d’Under the Volcano, loin d’assurer au protagoniste une maîtrise sur son œuvre et son passé, s’avère une plongée vertigineuse dans un puits sans fond ; les emboîtements métafictionnels, le réseau infini des identifications invalident tous les repères et frontières entre fiction et réalité, décor et envers du décor, remettant ainsi en question les fondements de la représentation, la distinction platonicienne entre modèle et copie. Malgré le parcours diégétique victorieux des protagonistes, Dark as the Grave, entraînant le lecteur vers le chaos et le confrontant à ce que Gilles Deleuze appelle un « effondement », apparaît comme un roman expérimental qui interroge toutes les frontières. |
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Dark as the Grave first appears as a novel exploring the other side of Under the Volcano, Sigbjørn Wilderness, Lowry’s slightly disguised fictional alter ego, coming back to Mexico where the events that gave rise to the writing of Under the Volcano took place. However this investigation into how the novel came into being, meant to grant the protagonist control over his work and his past, proves a dizzying fall into a bottomless pit. Metafictional embedding and the endless network of identifications blur all landmarks and borders between reality and fiction, thus undermining the very foundations of representation and the Platonic distinction between model and copy. In spite of the protagonists’ successful journey on the diegetic level, Dark as the Grave, which makes the reader experience chaos and confronts him with what Deleuze terms « effondement », appears as a truly experimental novel which calls all borders into question. |
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Malcolm Lowry : Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid et Under the Volcano ou les liaisons vertigineuses entre décor et envers du décor |
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