Contemporary fiction encounter the narrating of reality, demonstrating auctorial commitment and denunciation. Far from engagement in the Sartrean sense, today, writers are committed to telling the existential difficulties, changes in our lives caused by external agents, mostly economic, and the struggles for the survival of the poor. Virginie Despentes is in this movement : she explores extreme situations and drifting lives of humans in difficulty with the dynamics of society. It is « life forms » that she takes as examples and places them at the center of her novels. By taking into account the vicissitudes of "Vernon Subutex"’s hero, these new ways of the engaged writing are discussed and illustrated.

Considérations sur «Vernon Subutex» de Virginie Despentes : « formes de vie », implication et engagement oblique

E. Bricco
2019-01-01

Abstract

Contemporary fiction encounter the narrating of reality, demonstrating auctorial commitment and denunciation. Far from engagement in the Sartrean sense, today, writers are committed to telling the existential difficulties, changes in our lives caused by external agents, mostly economic, and the struggles for the survival of the poor. Virginie Despentes is in this movement : she explores extreme situations and drifting lives of humans in difficulty with the dynamics of society. It is « life forms » that she takes as examples and places them at the center of her novels. By taking into account the vicissitudes of "Vernon Subutex"’s hero, these new ways of the engaged writing are discussed and illustrated.
2019
Loin de l’engagement au sens sartrien, aujourd’hui, les écrivains s’attachent à raconter les difficultés existentielles, les mutations de nos vies causées par des agents extérieurs, pour la plupart économiques, et les luttes pour la survie des plus démunis. Virginie Despentes se situe dans cette mouvance : elle explore des situations extrêmes et des vies de sujets à la dérive, en difficulté avec les dynamiques de la société. Le texte prend alors en charge des « formes de vie » qu’il place en son centre, et vis-à-vis desquelles il établit des mécanismes d’empathie et d’évaluation morale, dont la portée est, sinon politique, du moins sociale. Dans cet article, ces nouvelles manières de l’écrire engagé sont discutées et illustrées à travers le cycle romanesque de «Vernon Subutex» et les vicissitudes de son héros.
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