Abstract
In Fukushima, récit d’un désastre, Michaël Ferrier writes: “l’univers ne se réduit pas à ce que l’on sait […] il se manifeste par des ondes, des flux, des vibrations” (Fukushima 14). These waves, however invisible, are perceived and transcribed by the author like a seismograph.
This article shows that the waves go so far as to settle at the very heart of the act of writing to establish themselves as a principle. Because for Ferrier, waves are the breath of life and therefore that of writing. They give and transmit the rhythm, the cadence, the emotion with the will to reveal events of all kinds, ordinary or not, and to mark memories.
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Alexis Chauchois
Alexis L. Chauchois is an Assistant Professor of French at Mercer University. His interests span the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specialization in French & Francophone literature.