Qu’est-ce que regarder un film dans une salle? Réflexion sur la sémiologie de l’espace en cinéma
What Does It Mean to Watch a Movie in a Theatre? A Reflection upon the Semiology of Space in Cinematography

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyse Chloé Deaume’s writing and to pay tribute to her. French contemporary writer involved in autofiction she has written 23 novels, 3 plays, 3 essays and 16 other texts and short novels. She is a protean artist and her writing is intimately related to her performances. Body – her body –, which is integral part of her work, is the very matter of her creations. Performative (in both acceptations of the word) writing, embodied writing are the expressions which define Delaume’s work the best. She creates new words mixing poetry and biomedical register. She displaces letters, uses repeated plays on words, refrains and tunes. Her favorite key sentence is a reference to performative speech theories to which she adds a personal autonomy principle: “My name is Chloé Delaume” (Je m’appelle Choé Delaume). Her language makes her coming to the wor(l)d. It’s performative. She auto-engender herself by means of her writing. Organic body and textual body are interrelated in an epidermic relation. So it’s through an autofictional essay we will analyse the importance of body and writing, leitmotivs united in a symbiotic relation, in Delaume’s work, especially in these two texts: La Vanité des Somnambules and La règle du Je. The non-typical form of this research paper is integrated in its narrative and autofictional substance. We want to create an analysis by means of its demonstration and its mise en abyme. So we get involved in an intimate writing with the author in the same way she does with herself, objectifying her own body using written language. Doing this we make clear that autofiction is intimately related to narrative, performance and essay.

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