Intermédiarités dans Douleur exquise de Sophie Calle
Intermediality in Sophie Calle’s Exquisite Pain

Summary/Abstract: Sophie Calle’s work is at the crossroads of several media, such as photography, literature, visual arts, and cinema. Exquisite Pain (2003), a heavily autobiographic work, juxtaposes the narrative of the author’s trip to Japan in 1984, the one of her separation, as well as a collection of anonymous stories which echo the main narrative. In this study, we aim to analyze the hybridization of photography and literature in Calle’s Exquisite Pain: if images are static, the narrative of the pain, to the contrary, turns out to be dynamic, evolving from simple captions accompanying the photographs to a real story prodigiously expressed in words. In addition, we will focus on how the two mediums rely on each other, with photography adding an emotional impact to the narrative force of writing.

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