“When she awoke, a shower of raw flesh had fallen in the field.” Profusion et déliquescence dans « Any Corpse » de Brian Evenson
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2019
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Maud Bougerol, « “When she awoke, a shower of raw flesh had fallen in the field.” Profusion et déliquescence dans « Any Corpse » de Brian Evenson », Revue française d’études américaines, ID : 10670/1.49jh69
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The characters in Brian Evenson’s short story “Any Corpse” wander a decaying world: bits and pieces of corpses are rotting in an inhospitable landscape solely consisting of barren fields. As survivors of a disaster that is never explained, they set to no avail on a quest for knowledge ending in blinding scenes of violence and murder. The use of abundant details in the short story leads to profuse close-ups of a putrefying world, while provoking a linguistic and sensory proliferation that triggers a reaction from the reader. He/she then experiences an act of reading marked by profusion.