Tanguy Viel et la vitre spectrale
Tanguy Viel and the spectral window

Summary/Abstract: After a long metamorphosis dedicated to transparency, passage and opening, the window becomes obscure and, under the grip of the opacity announced by Andreea Del Lungo, we propose to articulate a study of the imaginary of the window – a spectral window – as we can find in two novels by Tanguy Viel, while exploiting several occurrences intimately related to this topos that has become a palimpsest object. By recurrence, we will try to analyze a device that we identify as renewed and multiplied in postmodernism, folded to the twists and turns of the individual, a device that can be imagined in the form of different scopic objects, such as the car window, the binoculars, the television. For an outraged character whose life has changed from one moment to the next, the window seems to be deprived of its modern functions linked to the gaze. This spectral window does not open on a landscape, a natural topography (external reality), but on the existential void resulting from a painful retrospection. After all consideration, the window misted by the Viel’s character is part of an enclosed space, even a cloister, condemning the inhabitant to loneliness and seclusion.

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