LITERAPORT. Revue annuelle de littérature francophone

Colette et le corps masculin : un « female gaze » avant l’heure ?

2025-09-16T11:47:32+00:00

Colette puts the physical aspect of things and living beings at the heart of her writing. This applies to men and their bodies. One could almost say she looks at men in the same way as men look at women, especially in her marked preference for young and beautiful bodies. But she also differs in several ways. She does not have any feeling either of superiority or resentment towards men. She also shows an acute conscience of time and its destructive power, which makes men’s beauty as ephemeral as women’s. Finally, her acceptation and representation of the feminine in every man probably makes her one of the first creative writers playing consistently on the blurring of genders.

Du corps présent à l’absence de sang dans l’oeuvre d’Annie Ernaux

2025-09-17T08:48:23+00:00

In Mémoire de fille and Une femme, Annie Ernaux uses her writing to trace the bodies of an adolescent girl, Annie D, and her mother, Blanche Duchesne. Ernaux’s pen gradually transforms the bodies of the two characters into a single shared body. Despite the age difference between the two characters, writing brings them closer together until they become one. This article explores the union of the two bodies and their blood as concrete evidence of their reality. By tracing the lives of Annie D and writing memory. The narrative is therefore the real (literary) body of the two women. The writing thus produces the bodies, while itself becoming the body of the characters.

L’inscription du corps féminin dans l’institution polygamique chez Djaïli Amadou Amal

2025-09-16T06:03:24+00:00

The female subjects described in Les Impatientes and Coeur du Sahel, struggle daily through their bodies, in order to reconstruct their identity. In their social, traditional and religious world, these women question the practice of polygamy considered to be a major handicap to their development. This article thus aims to question the uses of the female body in a phallocratic society. This allows us to examine the practices of the body, the excesses as well as the affects of the female beings who evolve in this space. Very often, when faced with difficulties, these characters use strategies that are sometimes subversive with regard to the practices linked to their world. The author therefore depicts and satirizes a phallocratic society, faced with a profound value change.

De l’imaginaire de la réalité au réel de la fiction : subjectivation néolibérale et corporalités liminales dans Apocalypse bébé de Virginie Despentes

2025-09-17T08:57:53+00:00

The concept of corporality encompasses the entirety of the human being, emphasising the interconnection between the psychophysical aspects of existence. This study is intended to reveal the structures of subjectivation and modes of behaviour that shape the human experience in the neoliberal era. We aim to demonstrate that the transition from the imaginary realm of functionalised reality to the tangible reality of fiction is a fundamental aspect of the narrative structure of Apocalypse Bébé by Virginie Despentes. In her polyphonic anatomy of contemporary societies, Despentes provides the reader with a critical, lucid and evocative deconstruction of our times, elucidating the psychological, symbolic, physical and verbal violence inherent in the social body, while simultaneously highlighting and exalting human alterity.

La poupée infanticide avec les petites mains. La représentation du corps de Louise dans Chanson Douce (2016)

2025-09-16T07:21:34+00:00

In Leila Slimani’s Chanson Douce (2016), the perfect nanny becomes a murderer: the novel reproduces a narrative of evil nannies who set themselves up in perfect harmony in a family before murdering the children. Louise is portrayed both as a heroine who ‘saves’ the family and as a murderous monster. Her body serves as a representative of this ambiguity: despite her fragile body, Louise possesses astonishing physical strength. Drawing on anthropological, social and cultural concepts, this contribution will analyse the linguistic and literary representation of Louise’s body, with reference to specific constructs and parts of her body: her employee’s body, her doll’s body, her hands and her face.

« Où sont vos jambes ? » : Attraction et répulsion du corps dans L’Hiver sous la table (1994) de Roland Topor

2025-09-17T09:07:09+00:00

Roland Topor, as a “visceral” artist, makes an apology for the body throughout his work that we can describe as ambivalent, since he shows it in all its splendor as well as in all its miseries. Following “panic” strategies, he presents us a body that is both seductive and repulsive, relying on caustic and destabilizing humor. To illustrate this questioning about the body, we will rely on a brief analysis of
L’Hiver sous la table (1994), one of the last works published before his sudden death. Starting from an introduction about the “panic” body, we will present the chosen play as a love song, to then delve into the strategies of attraction and repulsion. This will lead us to conclude that the author, with his characteristic transgressive spirit, questions in a subversive way the limits of the body, both physical and social.

La jouissance de la mortification de la jouissance : Modiano avec Lacan

2025-09-16T07:27:20+00:00

Through the term « jouissance », Jacques Lacan designates what disrupts the life of the body, what creates a hole in the implementation of the principle of pleasure and leads the speaking subject to consider his body as an Other, always somehow strange – that is impossible to control, if not threatening. Reading the work of Patrick Modiano in light of this lacanian concept of « jouissance » reveals a very singular use of proper nouns in his writings. Often, Modiano uses these signifiers in a way that mortifies
jouissance and in the same movement brings about a new jouissance : the white, poetic jouissance that produces his way of mortifying jouissance.

Sentiments du corps obscène dans la poésie de James Sacré

2025-09-17T09:46:27+00:00

This article examines the representation of the obscene body in the poetry of James Sacré, a major figure of the new lyricism in contemporary French poetry. This article aims to highlight the main dynamics of an obscene body that obey less a transgression of moral or linguistic decency than a will to grasp the ambiguity of desires, the modesty of intimacy and the connections with space-time
as accurately as possible.

La représentation du corps intermédial dans le récit libertin : la peinture dans Le Paysan perverti et la musique dans Les Sonnettes

2025-09-16T11:52:14+00:00

In The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault argues that the body and its sexuality have been longstanding subjects of contemplation. Foucault posits that the body possesses its own history, discourse, and imaginative representations, notably depicted in libertine literature of the 18th century. These narratives revel in portraying the body as an object of desire, set amidst luxurious attire, comfortable interiors, and intimate boudoirs with mirrors, all encapsulating the discourse of voluptuousness. This
concept extends beyond mere physical display, influencing various artistic forms that hint at or reveal nudity. Painting and music, especially, enhance the portrayal of erotic scenes, emphasizing voyeuristic perspectives and intertwining body and art in libertine literature.

Le corps de la voix, la voix du corps. Marcel Proust et la musique spectrale

2025-09-17T09:58:27+00:00

The present text explores Proustian aesthetics of music from a rather unusual point of view. After having briefly sketched the general outlines of Proust’s view of music (demonstrated by the famous passages on the “little phrase” from Vinteuil’s sonata), the author goes on to confront Proust with a more contemporary musical current – spectral music. As a starting point, we propose a close reading of several texts by Michaël Levinas – one of the founders of spectral music – stressing in particular what we consider to be a very important literary inspiration for one of Levinas’s compositions: the passage on the death agony of the narrator’s grand-mother from the third volume of In Search of Lost Time. This confrontation enables us, in turn, to read the Proustian text itself from a new perspective.

Quête du corps, quête du langage. Corps féminin déformé, animalisé, grotesque : Truismes de Marie Darrieussecq

2025-09-16T12:01:54+00:00

This article aims to examine the representations of the deformed and animalized female body in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes (1996) through the analysis of the grotesque metamorphosis of the narrator into a sow, a symbol of the reduction of women to their corporeality, their alienation and dehumanization in a patriarchal and consumerist society. The article explores the deformation
of the body through the lens of the grotesque, then the dialectics between the human and the inhuman, and finally the potential for reclaiming both the body and language. Drawing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Hélène Cixous, as well as the works of Bakhtin and Levinas, the article demonstrates how the narrator of Truismes attains a body-as-subject, capable of reinvention, and how her metamorphosis, far from being mere degradation, becomes a space for reclaiming both the body and language.

La corporéité dans Les Intranquilles d’Azza Filali : du faire signe au faire sens

2025-09-17T10:06:12+00:00

In her novel Les Intranquilles, the writer seems to rely on the body to put into discourse certain marginal identities that underpin her narrative. Our proposed reading of this text attempts to interrogate the body as a property of discourse and a central instance of signification. The study subjects this property of discourse to a semiotic analysis based on a dual conception: the body as sign and the body as meaning. In other words, the body is conceived, firstly, as the surface on which the characters’ marginality is inscribed. Then, as a discursive instance that makes sense through the co-presence of two bodies in an immediate relationship.

Tomasz Kaczmarek, François de Curel et la crise du drame : de la "pièce bien faite" à la "pièce bien défaite" (Łódź, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022, 484 p.)

2025-09-16T12:11:27+00:00

Wielcy minores. Miniatury teatralne francuskojęzycznej Kanady w okresie belle époque, opracowanie i tłumaczenie Sebastian Zacharow (Łódź, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024, 204 p.)

2025-09-17T10:13:11+00:00

Doamna de Staël, Scrieri din tinerețe. Traducere, prefață, note, indice de nume, comentarii, tabel cronologic de Ramona Malița (Timişoara : Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2023, 201 p).

2025-09-16T12:19:04+00:00

Dzŭbàŋ, Le bal des masques (Dschang, Élite d’Afrique Éditions, 2024, 81 p.)

2025-09-17T10:19:02+00:00

Avant-propos

2025-09-17T08:43:52+00:00