La Langue de Céline et le corps humain dans Voyage au bout de la nuit
Journal Title: Argotica - Year 2012, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The present paper is a comment, resulted from some notes on L.-F. Céline and his relation to slang, when I read his first novel, published in 1932, Voyage au bout de la nuit (English translation Journey to the End of Night, by John H.P. Marks, 1934; Ralph Manheim, 1988). Based on the hypothesis that write in slang is a strong speech act in literature, I looked into how the author used slang in his descriptions, especially the descriptions of the human body. The aim of this work is not to state what this relation to slang really is, but to propose three approaches of the author towards human body, which I can distinguish in the novel: body as living matter, body as corpse and body as an infertile machine.
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Audrey Coularis
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