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[...] It is a limit that Alain Damasio dared to cross by inserting a multitude of codes into his novel. His novel The Furtives is thus endowed with an additional freedom, finding its origin beyond the conventional. For example, the multiple diacritical marks that appear on letters in the two last paragraphs of chapter 18 (page 706) give life to the text. It is clear, given the context of the excerpt studied, that the understanding of the text is not compromised, but there is enough to disturb a reader who is not accustomed to the writing principles and the creative imagination of an author like Alain Damasio. [...]
[...] An adaptation to the idiolect of the characters In advance, this excerpt illustrates Alain Damasio's ability to adapt to the way of expressing himself of his characters, to the idiolect. In this perspective, he uses a lot of indicators of argotic vocabulary, of orality such as neologisms, for example. « TOI QUE BIG TATA COUVE DANS TON TECHNOCOCON.1 « TECHNOCOCON" is a neologism that defines the technology specific to the universe of the Furtifs. The term « cocon represents a secure environment. The concept of technococon is imagined by the author. [...]
[...] The excerpt, like the book, has multiple viewpoints due to the richness of its writing techniques and the focused staging on the dystopia aiming to reveal the flaws of society. Thus, the author poses, in this excerpt, in a signature writing style, the problem of the opposition between a return to nature and the capitalism that regulates us today, but in a future world. Therefore, the analysis will focus on understanding his writing technique before continuing with the emphasis on his commitment and finally addressing his particular use of accents (III). Commentary I. His writing technique 1. [...]
[...] The reading of the tags 'au feeling des lieux reveals an author guided by his intimate convictions, his deep desires, his dramatic observations, in the text, but also in the actions of the characters. 2. Representation of a dystopian society Furthermore, we note in this excerpt, like the novel, the author's use of dystopia representing sobriety and the danger of future society, a consequence of the current social context. « 1. To love or to fly? (Individualism) / 2. If not possible, I suffocate (Experimenting) / 9. We will be nature defending itself. (Ecology)7 These 9 key issues represent what the Furtifs denounce or advocate. It is a kind ofmanifesto8. [...]
[...] One certainty, this is not a matter of chance. In the excerpt studied as well as in the rest of the novel, it is a habit of the author to highlight a character or a fact of the story. Here the two paragraphs evoke Tishka, the little girl, public enemy number 1 and her parents. Alain Damasio thus created a foreshadowing, significant foreshadowing, from the cedilla. The incomprehensible should thus become progressively clairvoyant since the author spreads clues in his text to announce a decisive event for the rest of the story. [...]
