INTERTEXTES CULTURELS
CULTURAL INTERTEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The intertextuality becomes a seal in Pierre Michon's work, which is shown by the presence in his texts of rare words, collocations, allusions, quotation and symbolic constructions. Michon's appeal to archive texts, cultural, pictorial and historic references, are the proof of erudition and a very rich cultural background inserted into his work with the purpose of confusing the reader. The presence of great authors such as Beckett, Faulkner, Flaubert, Bon, Rimbaud, Racine, Platonov, Dumas or Shakespeare are the proof that the contemporary literature could not exist without "the back world" and that it has to lean on this one. Pierre Michon mentions the texts which he discovered in his youth, the founding readings which gave him some boldness to enter literature. Erudite and "books devourer", insatiable reader, he spends a lot of his time reading and makes his entrance to literature at the age of 38.

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