D’UNE FOLIE ALIÉNANTE À UNE FOLIE ÉMANCIPATRICE DU PROTAGONISTE : UNE INVITATION À LA DÉCOUVERTE D’HÉTÉROTOPIES LITTÉRAIRES ANGLOPHONES ET BELGES
From an Alienating Madness to an Emancipatory Madness of the Protagonist: An Invitation to the Discovery of Anglophone and Belgian Literary Heterotopias

Summary/Abstract: Since Antiquity, the madman has been considered a bearer of a sin and, due to thesocietal destabilization that he carries within him, someone who must be excluded from theworld shared by all. However, does this exclusion remain the same when everyday life hasitself become meaningless and leads every man into an irrepressible desire to sink intonothingness? Should we accept living, or rather surviving, in an unhealthy environment amongother people who are equally lost? Is it possible not to revolt in a space where the absurd hasbecome the norm? Should we consider that since it is madness to live, it is liberating to die?Does madness only generate loss and confusion or can it reveal positive heterotopias to us? Ifthese are perhaps an illusion, is madness not an engine which, under the appearance of revolt,allows us to evolve? Finally, doesn't madness play an emancipatory role when it feeds on aneed to abjure old models to open up to creativity? This is what we propose to analyze throughfour texts written in the 20th century and linked to three literary movements: the theatre ofcruelty of Ghelderode, science fiction as developed by Wells and Galouye and magical realismor poetry of Robert Poulet.

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