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Marc Chénetier, « « Infernal humanness » : portrait d'un cannibale à cinquante ans », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle
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The Cannibal, published in 1949, remains one of the most powerful texts John Hawkes has written. Provocatively determined to do away with «plot, character, setting and theme», «these familiar ways of thinking about fiction», it favors a «totality of vision or structure» that is remarkably apt to convey the dehumanization of a world paralyzed by the jaws of war, caught in the «creepy minuet history and the inner psychic history must dance together». The grandeur and permanence of this masterpiece lies primarily in its capacity to be less about inhumanity than to project its causes onto its form.
