2017
Cairn
Mandana Covindassamy, « Jouer sur la scène de la langue. Le théâtre de Robert Walser », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.i2cgvz
Walser’s love of the theater dates back to his youth. This paper aims to show that Walser’s drama stages a literal un-folding of the tongue. The ‘tongue’ is both the organ in the mouth and language. It is the ground upon which the figures, the characters, find their feet. The Fairy Tale Dramolettes, for instance, rest on the material of fairy tales, continually told anew, as do the tragedies on myth. The dynamics of a text by Walser consist in the solidity of words being unleashed. This manipulation of a language always on the point of turning into stammering is linked to the Freudian idea of the joke.