Water as scar tissue: The “Saumon noir” odyssey by Serge Delaive Cover Image

L’eau comme tissu cicatriciel : l’odyssée du Saumon noir de Serge Delaive
Water as scar tissue: The “Saumon noir” odyssey by Serge Delaive

Author(s): Alicja Ślusarska
Subject(s): Photography, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: water; movement; memory; identity; intertextuality;

Summary/Abstract: Water is one of the obsessive themes in Serge Delaive's literary and photographic work. As an image of the in-between, Delaive’s water symbolizes the fundamental ambivalence of man. It also plays the role of "scar tissue", capable of "stitching" the links of connaturality, removing the boundaries between rootedness and openness, between real and beyond, between past and future, between individual and community, between history and myth, between word and image. Our study aims to analyze this unifying function of water, focusing on three key notions of the story Black salmon (2017): movement, memory and identity.

  • Issue Year: 42/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 190-199
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French