Abstract

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.