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| Content Provider | Springer Nature Link |
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| Author | Barnett, R. L. Etienne |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Within the tangled skein of Zola’s Nana, malady—metaphysical and metaphorical—yields but violated debris: a disassemblage of annexed marginalia, bits of flesh, disinherited, as it were, and subsisting in the absence of all signifying matter. So with discourse. It, likewise, transpires as a breed of involuted play, a repository of ill-defined wantingness, an interstice, an illusion, oxymoron, annulation, oneiric absence—until it slakes perniciously into silence. To the extent that readability (the infamous “lisible”) is constructed largely upon some brand of referential chain (even in its post-modern, intratextual demeanors), the disintegration of the novel’s nuclear substance un-does, in a very real sense, any brand of integrality. As the inexorable “virus” eviscerates and strips away the actrice, the theater, the stage, the visage of Venus, the play, the script, the auto-referentiality of narcissistic glances, the vituperative glare of those “perdu[s] derrière les jupes,” in sum, the very matter of the exposé (énoncé and énonciation), we, as readers, are extradited to the margins of discourse, left at an end, at the end with none but the somatic vestiges of Zola’s bloat queen, whose deleted marrow is the only marrow that there is, usurping the text and, ultimately, the contours of its own ravaged frame. Yet there lurks, all else effaced, this “monstre de l’Écriture, lubrique, sentant la fauve”: Zola’s epithetic turn of phrase, the genitive pitting of beastliness and textliness, significantly repeals difference and proffers a conjunctive vision of word and world withered.Quoique, dans son face à face avec les hommes qui la poursuivent et la redoutent, Nana révèle une nature bestiale et dévoratrice qui l’apparente aux monstres de l’univers tératologique des Rougon-Macquart, au serpent de l’alambic dans L’Assommoir, au Minotaure du Voreux dans Germinal, à la cavale indomptable de la Lison, dans La Bête humaine, elle s’en distingue en ce que Nana seule incarne tous les avatars pulpeux et scandaleux du corps devenu la matière, la peau, le muscle, le nerf, la pâte du livre: autant dire le roman lui-même. Perfide guet-apens: qu’on ne se laisse pas prendre au piège. Car si, au-delà des hommes, c’est Paris tout entier que Nana va engloutir – corrompre et désorganiser – “entre ses cuisses de neige,” c’est – il faut y succomber – au texte zolien que se substituera l’être en expansion qu’elle est: “ce monstre de l’Écriture, lubrique, sentant la fauve” se métamorphose en une hideuse mangeuse de texte, en un ferment de destruction discursif et textuel. La chute tellement inscrite se dédouble faisant montre d’une structure bipartite: toutes les marques prophétiques d’une gueuse subalterne, d’une créature flétrie, infecte, désagrégée préludent dorénavant à la caducité d’une figure irrémédiablement putride et néfaste -- laquelle s’anéantit alors qu’elle vicie et décompose la Parole même qui l’avait engendrée. Or, s’engendre et triomphe une anti-poétique de désignification: la chair accapare et suffoque le discours dont elle prend possession, discours qui ne subsiste dès lors que comme indice d’un ultime et morbide démembrement – tant corporel que langagier. Ayant oblitéré tout ce qu’elle fut chargée de contenir, la parole ne porte plus, n’est plus porteuse. Au lieu de dire, elle se dit; plutôt que de signaler, elle se signale. En renonçant à son statut de symbole, elle devient monument. |
| Starting Page | 439 |
| Ending Page | 452 |
| Page Count | 14 |
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| ISSN | 03244652 |
| Journal | Neohelicon |
| Volume Number | 39 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| e-ISSN | 15882810 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Netherlands |
| Publisher Date | 2012-08-08 |
| Publisher Place | Dordrecht |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Nana Zola Rougon-Macquart Naturalisme Poétique-du-corps Prostitution Narratologie Sémiotique Comparative Literature |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Law |
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