De l’écran « noir » à la page « blanche » : moments intertextuels et mouvements intermédiatiques de l’écriture romanesque dans la Rétine de Théo Casciani
From “Black” Screens to “White” Pages: Intertextual Moments and Intermedial Movements of Novelistic Writing in Rétine by Théo Casciani

Summary/Abstract: Contrasting characterisations of screen media as confronted with the traditional medium of print, alluded to in the title (cf. the full quote in the paper), offer a perfect distillation of an agonistic relationship – which the text of Rétine (2019) by Théo Casciani posits as antithetical, if not dichotomous – between digital media and contemporary novelistic writing, which makes the strategy adopted by Casciani’s novel an exemplary and paradigmatic case of remediation of the digital in contemporary fiction that warrants to be examined in greater detail. A textual analysis along the lines of intermedial reading is in order, focusing on the spatial stratification of a key episode of the novel that provides an elaborate framework for the inter-arts dialogue the novel establishes with the digital. The paper dwells on the media archaeological implications of said framework codified poetically by way of the intertextual ties the novel entertains with Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris.

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