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- Title
Savoir romanesque et parcours axiologique dans Tarmac de Nicolas Dickner et Mayonnaise d'Éric Plamondon.
- Authors
Riendeau, Pascal
- Abstract
This article examines axiological exploration in two contemporary Québécois texts that both develop a particular kind of novelistic knowledge: Tarmac (2009) by Nicolas Dickner and Mayonnaise (2012) by Éric Plamondon. In my analysis, I show how the worldviews portrayed in each text contradict established knowledge. By articulating an "inessential knowledge" throughout his novel, Dickner transforms an obsession with the end of the world into a conflict between the narrator and the dominant worldview. Plamondon, on the other hand, brings into play the notion of "encyclopaedic fragments" that serve to undermine the traditional novelistic form in Mayonnaise, a text that echoes and transforms Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America (1967). I also show that Plamondon's axiological questions are centered in a reflection on suicide, and, more specifically, on how suicide is inextricably linked to the act of writing a novel.
- Subjects
TARMAC (Book); MAYONNAISE (Book); DICKNER, Nicolas; PLAMONDON, Eric; 21ST century French-Canadian fiction; TROUT Fishing in America (Book : Brautigan); BRAUTIGAN, Richard Gary, 1935-1984; FRENCH-Canadian literature; CANADIAN literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2017, Vol 63, p99
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2017.7