14 octobre 2020
Anne Simon, « Thangam Ravindranathan | Behold an Animal | Northwestern University Press | 2020 », Animots, ID : 10670/1.2gwds2
Thangam Ravindranathan, Behold an Animal. Four Exorbitant Readings, Northwestern University Press, 2020 As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature’s creatures? Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings examines incongruous animals in the works of four major contemporary French writers: an airborne horse in a novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, extinct orangutans in Éric Chevillard, stray dogs in Marie NDiaye, vanishing (bits of) hedgehogs in Marie Darrieussecq. ...