Making sense of images. Fanny Taillandier’s “Par les écrans du monde”

  • Marisa Verna Catholic University of Milan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7508
Keywords: literature, disaster, style, space, place, geopoetic

Abstract

This paper analyses the category of space in Fanny Taillandier’s last novel Par les écrans du monde. We argue that Taillandier tries to “make sense” of 9/11 terrorist attack through a stylistic recomposition of the dimension of space, while situating it in a “geometry of words” that makes it meaningful and human again. In effect, in Taillandier’s novel, the devastation and the final regeneration of the city are conveyed by a verbal picture, where images that constantly flow in the media find a solidity that no “digital modeling” (Taillandier) could reach, being the digital representation only able to show (and rationalize) chaos. Literature, on the other hand, bears human life. Our theoretical framework is the “Geopoetic” approach, as it is conceived by Kenneth White, Michel Collot and the Canadian research group of Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Servanne Montjour.

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Author Biography

Marisa Verna, Catholic University of Milan

Marisa Verna is Full Professor of French Literature at the Catholic University of Milan since 2004. She is Head of the Departement of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literature in the same university since 2011. She is a specialist of the Symbolist Theatre and of Marcel Proust's style. She also studied the French bourgeois drama (Dumas fils) and the French Symbolist poetry.
Main publications. Books: L’opera teatrale di Josephin Peladan. Esoterismo e Magia nel Dramma simbolista, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2000; Alexandre Dumas fils, Dumas figlio, La signora delle Camelie, The Lady of the Camellias (Marisa Verna ed. and transl.), Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2012; Le sens du plaisir. Des synesthésies proustiennes, Peter Lang, Bern, New York, Wien, Berlin 2013; Proust, une langue étrangère, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2020.

Published
2020-12-21
How to Cite
VernaM. (2020). Making sense of images. Fanny Taillandier’s “Par les écrans du monde”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 793-811. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7508
Issue
No 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)
Section
Varia

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