LE CORPS ET L’ÂME/BODY AND SOUL L’imaginaire du « corps-institution » dans la prose romanesque de Michel Houellebecq
LE CORPS ET L’ÂME/BODY AND SOUL The Image of the “Body-Institution“ in Michel Houellebecq’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to show, based on the romantic writing of Michel Houellebecq, that the human body has acquired new properties which make it an enterprise in its own and therefore an institution. What G.Wallet (2003) designates by ‘body-institution’ because, through the enterprise of his body, the individual governs himself to exist in the economic world and influences the economic system through activities that are more or less profitable. This study would like to question the mentalities of recognition and potential in the economic system. Based on the thematic criticism of Jean Pierre Richard (1961) which deals with the theme and its reasons, associated with the sociopoetics of G. Molinié and A. Viala (1993) which establishes the relationship between esthetics and ideology, we will show the configuration of the body of writing, will analyse its textual representatives and will arrive at the conclusion that the imagination of the ‘body-institution’ is the expression of a new state of capitalism of vulnerabilities.

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