La musique comme inspiration formelle et thématique dans l’œuvre de François Emmanuel // Music as formal and thematic inspiration in the novels by François Emmanuel

Abstract

In the work of contemporary French-speaking Belgian author, François Emmanuel, music occupies a privileged place even if it is never the prime theme of his books. Music inspires some formal aspects of his writing, but mostly comes to complete and enrich the meaning of the stories based on traumas, voids and silences, where the language itself is often not enough to express fragile subjects.

Keywords

• music
• meaning
• contemporary Belgian literature
• musique
• signification
• littérature belge contemporaine