Images et narration dans l’œuvre de Dany Laferrière

• Authors: Paola Ghinelli

Title variants

EN

Images and narration in Dany Laferrière’s work

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

FR

Narrative developments often stem from images in Dany Laferrière’s work. On the other hand, some of the narration in Laferrière’s fiction and nonfiction is synthesized in narrative snapshots that resemble descriptions. Temporal dimension plays a key role in this constant shift between image and imagination, because, as Didi-Huberman has shown, images carry an anachronistic element. This element also allows Laferrière and his narrators to use mainly simple present tense, even when the content of the narration is set in the past. Nevertheless, images are never explained or rationalized in Laferrière’s work, which keeps the mystery and ambiguity that characterize visual representations.

Keywords

FR

Laferrière; images; narration; time; present tense

EN

Laferrière; images; narration; time; present tense

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
• Journal: Quêtes littéraires
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 181-189

Dates

published

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Paola Ghinelli

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/ql.251