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"Réparer les vivants" de Maylis de Kerangal : un labyrinthe salvateur
Maylis de Kerangal’s Réparer les vivants : a saving labyrinth

Author(s): Guillaume Rousseau
Subject(s): Philosophy, French Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: labyrinth; rhizome; brain; computer; Kerangal;

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the modern image of the labyrinth-rhizome in Maylis de Kerangal’s novels. Basing on the analyses of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (introduction to Mille plateaux), we explain the characteristics of this strange labyrinth, always in recomposition, and show how it fascinates the novelist. In a second step, we take the example of the labyrinth model which appears in Réparer les vivants : we formulate the hypothesis that it could represent the operation of the Cristal computer application used by health professionals for the organ transplantation procedure. Thus, the labyrinth ceases to be a place of perdition, it can save lifes.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 27-47
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: French
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