La parole et ses impossibles

Authors

Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, Lycée Gay-Lussac de Limoges

Abstract

Chamoiseau’s literature attempts to articulate three impossibilities: to name what is indescribable, that is the “unhuman”; to tell the story of newly discovered living things; and to describe the original silence from outside. Thus, words are expressed through hiccoughs, traces and through words like “disons” which express inertia or sing the powers of the living and mumble the impotence of being.

Recommended Citation

Pigeard de Gurbert, Guillaume (2013) "La parole et ses impossibles," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 81: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol81/iss1/8