L’écriture fragmentaire : une destruction d’une perspective unitaire du récit dans Terrasse à Rome de Pascal Quignard

Abstract

Pascal Quignard published Terrasse à Rome in 2000. The novel contains descriptions of paintings, engravings, incessant chronological jumps, and reflections. It also includes enigmas, snippets of stories, themes that weave between chapters. The composition of this novel required from the author a perfect disposition of each of the scenes, of each of the words, according to the textual totality. The improper integration of a single element leads to the breakdown of the general device and / or the collapse of the novelistic structure. It is necessary to solicit, as Gide already wanted it, the collaboration of the reader ; it is enough to propose to him the elements of a puzzle with which he can have fun exercising of the freedom of his intelligence and his imagination. Terrace in Rome is like a long meditation on the writer’s work and artistic creation.

Keywords

• writing
• destruction
• fragmentation
• construction
• reader