Aux limites du récit. "Dans le puits" de Rachilde
At the Limits of the Story. "Dans le puits" by Rachilde

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the image of crisis as it is presented in Rachilde’s autobiographical text “Dans le puits”, written during the First World War. The book offers an insight into the author’s perception of the war, of the fear and of the impossibility of fiction during this time of traumatic reality. Rachilde, usually a prolific writer, who has always produced at least one fiction a year, finds herself silenced, unable to speak up about the cruelty of war. “Dans le puits” is her only longer publication of that time, an attempt to relate the facts through her subjectivity, in order to discover their true meaning.

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