Gabriel Osmonde, les images et les mots de l’Alternaissance
Gabriel Osmonde, the Images and the Words of Alternaissance

Summary/Abstract: The work signed by Andreï Makine cannot be read without considering Gabriel Osmonde’s texts. Both works try to approach an essential truth linked to lost identity and to the fact that all writing is hiding someone else’s figure. In Alternaissance, Gabriel Osmonde multiplies the ekphrasis (descriptions of paintings, pictures, films and musicals) in order to emphasise the poverty of language, its failure when showing the simplicity of things. Nevertheless, this language is essential for escaping the tyranny of simplistic speech and getting away from all images that turn us into simple passive consumers. The writer’s mission is to invent a new language. The play Le Monde selon Gabriel, written under the name of Makine, is the key element that constitutes a bridge between two names, between two worlds, between two writings that make the image the basis of Makine-Osmonde’s aesthetics and ethics.

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