MYTHE ET MÉTAPHORE DANS L’ÉCRITURE DE SYLVIE GERMAIN
MYTH AND METAPHOR IN SYLVIE GERMAIN’S WRITINGS

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on Borges’s idea, according to which man compensates the limits of reason in an effort to understand the most intimate mechanisms of existence through imagination, which creates myths and symbols, this paper aims at analyzing the metaphor which Sylvie Germain builds in her poetic novel Le Livre des Nuits. Metaphor is the ingredient of an alchemical writing supposed to catch the movement of ideas and feelings facing an aggressive and compelling reality. Metaphor is with Sylvie Germain a source of mythical innovation in the sense that it recalibrates the ancient myths in modern times' terms. If we were to define Germain’s metaphor by its sensory, pathos, esthetic and axiological traits, then we would turn to two of her works which help us see through it the “colours of the invisible” and hear the “echoes of silence” of her writing.

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