Errance et passage à la limite

Carnets

关键词: uprooting;    limits;    confinement;    crossing;    wandering;   

DOI  :  10.4000/carnets.2230

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Borders establish a paradoxical relationship of identity in that both sides created participate at the very same time in a process of separating and of connecting. Once folded onto one another, these two halves cancel each other out and make way for a wandering: as much as borders territorialise, their manner of passing through can disorientate. However, it is necessary to distinguish the experience of wandering (an endless movement within the margins) from that of passing through (a crossroad consisting in the many paths one may take). Passing through implies a limen (threshold), whereas wandering by default infers a limes (limit). In Le Clézio, the island is a threshold where migrants are detained before being shipped off to Mauritius. A limit is seen in the bridge that McCarthy’s characters take to cross the American-Mexican border. Whilst it could be tempting to think that the contact with elsewhere necessarily translates into a return to an admittedly uncertain starting point, crossing over the limit (spatiality) reveals a flipside where characters confront their own limitations (ontology). Once the limit is crossed, return becomes impossible. What remains is that which drifts away.

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