ÉCRITURE FRAGMENTALE ET COLLAGE DANS LE ROMAN LA DÉLICATESSE, DE DAVID FOENKINOS
FRAGMENTAL WRITING AND COLLAGE IN DAVID FOENKINOS’ NOVEL LA DÉLICATESSE

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the two dominant writing practices in David Foenkinos’ novel La délicatesse: fragmentary writing and collage, thanks to which a fictional lacunary device is set up (as much from the point of view of form as from that of the content), which illustrates the principles of discontinuity, juxtaposition and composite. The conclusion of the analysis is that, on the one hand, both techniques contribute to the creation of an open text, which exhibits its heterogeneity and incompleteness; on the other hand, the generic heterogeneity of the fragments of (literary) texts inserted in the novel underlines the impurity of the genre, its porosity.

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