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Blood is the physiological or metaphorical presence that informs Les diaboliques (1874) by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. A veritable mana word, empty word, word of passage that can take on all meanings and fulfil all functions, the word “blood” refers to completely opposing realities. The ambivalent symbol of a century torn apart by the Revolution, blood materializes both life and death, heroism and treachery, pure and impure, Christ and woman. In an era when all illusion has been lost, the writer's only choice is to wring blood from words, upset signs, invent a new theology and a new rhetoric.
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AbstractThe writing of Linda Lê, a French writer of Vietnamese origin, is a nomad writing, and its language is that of exile. In the world of exile, words are no longer one with reality, but always signify the elsewhere. This article follows the chaotic evolution of a multi-sided subject en route to her history and her future, who attempts to find a defining voice (voix), a defining way (voie). Refusing a nostalgia for the elsewhere, Lê positions herself on the frontier of a hybrid world, in a between-two-worlds where all possibilities for becoming and the multiplicity of meaning are affirmed.