Le chant du mycélium ; suivi de Le monologue polyphonique dans la pièce Éden Matin Midi et Soir de Chloé Delaume
This master’s thesis is divided into two parts: creation and research. The first part is a fiction designed to be transposed into podcasts. The thirteen monads it is made of could be read and listened to in a random order (except the first one and the last one). The proliferation of textual forms (different voices and enunciative instances, pieces in verse and prose...) echoes the gradual transformation of the character's perception of the world. The hybridization processes aim to blur its sensitive and mental boundaries and to allow the emergence of a double that constantly disrupts their mental health and its bodily integrity. In the second part, that is devoted to research, the essay focuses on Éden Matin Midi et Soir (2009) by Chloé Delaume, writer and literary performer. The form of the discourse reveals its hybrid nature, in-between theatrical monologue, fictional monologue, polyphonic narrative and autofiction. The relationship to an unstable, multiple and polymorphic self-awareness is deeply embedded in a fragmented writing, always on the verge of psychosis and enunciative schizophrenia. This analysis explores the issues related to the fragmentation of the Self of the narrator-character, which is broken down into several autonomous voices that respond to each other, invective and scream. The essay, through the study of enunciative dynamics, aims to demonstrate how the text manages to bring about an open yet structuring polyphony from a monological framework.
Chloé Delaume monologue polyphony enunciation hybridization creative writting