« Chercher les forces obliques » : poétique anamorphique dans l’œuvre photolittéraire de Lydia Flem

Abstract

In 2008, as she has chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, Belgian writer Lydia Flem begins to photograph a series of colorful and heterogeneous objects. These conceptual pictures, both visual and textual, will have a major influence on her own writing. This article explores the photo-literary turn in Lydia Flem’s work, focusing on its original poetics: an “anamorphic” poetics, which plays on the principles of displacement and discrepancy between text and image.

Keywords

• Flem (Lydia)
• autofiction
• conceptual photography
• Carroll (Lewis)
• anamorphosis
• photo-literature