« Le Jardin malade » de Michel de Ghelderode : Le monstrueux comme travail du texte et motif épistémique
Michel de Ghelderode's “Le jardin malade”: The monstrous as textual work and epistemic motif

Summary/Abstract: Ghelderode’s “Le jardin malade” depicts a disintegration of reality leading to adenaturing strangeness of the world. The Ghelderodian fantastic imposes here thecontaminating, derealizing presence of an unthinkable that eludes comprehension andtestifies to a non-adaptation of being to the world. From the absolute otherness of the plantworld to teratological deformity, the very meaning of the fantastic "thing" is a monstrousthat should be seen as a set of imaginary representations exploring the limits of literaryfiguration, while opening up an epistemological breach in the natural order of things.

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