Villes mortes, villes à l’agonie. Écriture du ravage dans Le quatrième mur de Sorj Chalandon

Abstract

Particularly productive during the fin- de-siècle literature, the literary motif of dead cities is instilled with a new meaning in the Sorj Chalandon’s novel Le quatrième mur. Sorj Chalandon implements a poetics of sacking by which the devastated city be- comes both a fictional and tragic space of creation where the genre of the tomb is re- invented.

Keywords

• Dead city
• Utopia
• Representation
• Drama
• Metaphor
• Ruin