ESPACE DE LA MÉTROPOLE DANS L’ŒUVRE DE PIERRE MICHON
SPACE OF THE METROPOLIS IN THE WORK OF PIERRE MICHON

Summary/Abstract: Pierre Michon’s writing is linked to the province, which constitutes the perfect frame of fiction where the imagining of childhood takes place. In exchange, the metropolis is configured as a foreign world for the person who arrives from an environment where things know a better order and the dialect is the language of the rural community. Once arrived in the metropolis, the storyteller penetrates in a basically different world. Nevertheless, the metropolis is the place of the « Belle Langue » filled with emotion and energy – different from the dialect, which reminds of poor, provincial and ashamed origin, – which gives the chance to fill the blanknesss of provincial origins. One can speak about the metropolis at the same time as an urban space of the loss of identity and the conquest of this one.

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