Au nom de la chair: manger, regarder et lire à cru
In the Name of Flesh: Eating, Watching and Reading in the Raw

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the fluid border that exists in French between "la chair" (flesh) and "la viande" (meat) as well as between "la chair" (flesh) and "le corps" (body). This blurry distinction spurs us to analyze the impact of the discovery of paintings in the Lascaux cave on our perception of art as connected to the realm of spirit. The uncanny character of the Lascaux cave paintings, a homage paid to animality, as well as an aspiration to the sacred, is identical with an irruption of the heterogeneous in the text. It turns art and literature into a space of excessive communication, which originates in flesh.

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