Flux, ambiances et ré-enchantement du monde

Abstract

This article questions the idea that atmospheres might emerge from the perceptions of the body and might not be linked in any case to the language. The analysis is based on a novel by Henri Bosco : Malicroix. This novel offers a narrative whose island setting is under the dual and concurrent influences of the language of the Other (domestic and epistemic orders) and of an elementary world. Thanks to a deleuzian conceptual framework (“desert island”), the analysis puts under the light how a double inflection given to the language resizes the experience of the milieu in the sense of a broader embodiment with the elements, suitable for the emergence of moments of atmosphere. Author of a materialist and a vitalist language, Henri Bosco gives to these moments of atmosphere, and through them to the milieu, the ability to re-enchant a fallen island’s world.

Keywords

• atmosphere
• language
• body
• milieu
• Gilles Deleuze
• Henri Bosco