Métaphore d'un passage inquiétant chez Toussaint: « La Clé USB » ou la clé d'une porte dérobée
Metaphor of a troubling passage in the works of Toussaint: "La Clé USB" or the key to a forbidden door

Author(s): Cristina Croitoru
Subject(s): French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: threshold; USB key; backdoor; deviation; concern; Jean-Philippe Toussaint;
Summary/Abstract: In the novel "La Clé USB" - a novel which represents the first part of a new novelistic cycle, followed a year later, in 2020, by "Les Emotions" - the concern for the future seems to us unprecedented in more than one regard because it springs up in the narrative structure as being associated with an immaterial threshold imagined as being material in order to be better apprehended. If fear immerses itself into the narrator's consciousness, it is only at the cost of an unexpected discovery that becomes more and more concrete as we go along, brought about by the assumption of a cyber passage illicitly created between East and West, or rather between Europe and China. But is the presence of a backdoor the real threshold that causes the narrator to feel an implacable fear, or is it just a deviation, as if to leave behind the threshold that has haunted humanity since the beginning of time, the threshold between life and death, the crossing of which remains forever irreversible?

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