%0 Journal Article
%T De l¡¯incertitude dans la repr¨¦sentation : les traces de la d¨¦capitation chez G¨¦ricault et Villiers de l¡¯Isle Adam
%A Marion Delecroix
%A Loreline Dourneau
%J Trans : Revue de Litt¨¦rature G¨¦n¨¦rale et Compar¨¦e
%D 2011
%I Universit¨¦ Sorbonne Nouvelle
%X La guillotine, escamotant le moment du tr¨¦pas dans l¡¯invisibilit¨¦ de la chute du couperet, a exacerb¨¦ certains paradoxes li¨¦s ¨¤ l¡¯id¨¦e d¡¯un corps comme indice du vivant, de l¡¯animation int¨¦rieure : l¡¯absence de l¡¯instant du couperet se double d¡¯une recherche des traces du vif et de l¡¯inerte sur le corps. G¨¦ricault et Villiers de l¡¯Isle Adam recourent aux enjeux repr¨¦sentationnels impliqu¨¦s par cette invisibilit¨¦ du moment du tr¨¦pas et ce corps con u comme producteur de sympt mes. Toutefois, la trace, chez eux, n¡¯est pas signe pr¨¦cis, mais marque ou indice d¡¯un doute, d¡¯un trouble, condition de possibilit¨¦ de l¡¯ uvre d¡¯art. The guillotine, making the moment of passing away disappear through the invisibility of the falling blade, exacerbated some paradoxes related to the idea of a body as a sign of life, of interior animation: the absence of the instant of the blade is doubled by the search for signs of life and inertia in the body. Both G¨¦ricault and Villiers de l¡¯Isle Adam have recourse to what is at stake at the level of representation in this invisibility of the very instant of passing away and this body regarded as a producer of symptoms. Yet, traces, for them, are not definite signs, but the mark or indication of doubt, vagueness, and the condition of possibility of the work of art.
%U http://trans.revues.org/456