Le Devenir-terre de Pipi et autres dissolutions dans les romans de Patrick Chamoiseau

In the repertoire of Chamoisian metamorphoses, the image of the fusion with nature is recurrent. How should we read these almost marvelous episodes of becoming-dirt, humus, or stone? Starting from a reading of the concept of oikos by Jean-François Lyotard, this article analyzes different instances of fusion with nature in the novels Chronique des sept misères (1986), L’Esclave vieil homme et le molosse (1997), and Un dimanche au cachot (2007). Each of these initiations to the oikos comes up against an unspeakable event and drowns in an excess of words, for language lacks the ability to translate the alteration of consciousness and the mystical marriage with mother-earth. Yet a phenomenology of writing emerges from these novels that makes dissolution a demiurgic resource and a gesture of self-fecundation

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