Sa disparition, suivi de fragmentation, répétition, subversion : le procédé du sampling chez Olivier Cadiot
On the morning of April 28th, the narrator arrives at the center where her grandmother, Aline Martin, has been living, only to find that she has disappeared. Deeply shaken, the young woman refuses to leave the residence until her grandmother has been found. The story of Sa disparition builds itself around fragments of discourses drawn from various sources – interviews with residents in care centres, on-line family support groups, ministry policies, reports from NGOs, journalistic coverage – and becomes an investigation whose goal is not so much to find Aline as to shed light on the discourses that have been constructed in our political space in order to justify the disappearance of the elderlies from our social radar. This fragment-based writing is related to Olivier Cadiot’s sampling method, by which he collects, organizes and shakes up oral and textual objects in an attempt to disarticulate prevailing discourses. The essay examines Cadiot’s sampling method by analysing three important aspects of his novel Le colonel des zouaves: the subversion of citations, the loop structure and the fragmentation of the subject.
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