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Today / Aujourd'hui
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ENTRE "MOTS MUETS" ET SILENCE BRUISSANT:
le 6je9 en tension
Julia Siboni
Throughout his oeuvre, Beckett wavers between "unspoken words" and mur
murous silences questioning in this manner the nature of the existence of "true
silence." The tension between these two poles reflects the perpetual
(re)construction, (re)definition of an inside and outside, interiority and exteri
ority. Indeed, the limit between these two spaces turns out to be more often
than not mobile and porous, letting sound pass through. Thus the Beckettian
subject is called on to search for a place in this profoundly dynamic space of
tension, which is both limit and border and the ground of a precarious and
elusive identity.
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384 Julia Siboni
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Entre "mots muets" et silence bruissant 385
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386 Julia Siboni
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Entre "mots muets" et silence bruissant 387
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J'avais un faible pour les clotures, pour les clotures de fil de fer,
un grand faible; pas pour les murs, ni pour les palissades, ni pour
les haies opaques, non; mais pour tout ce qui limitait le mouve
ment, sans pour autant limiter la vue, pour le fosse, la fosse, la fe
netre a barreaux, le marecage, le sable mouvant, la claire-voie,
pour tous j'avais de la tendresse, a cette epoque, une grande ten
dresse.
(162-63)
Dans le meme ordre d'idee, l'adverbe "a peine," cher a l'auteur, dit cet
etat de febrilite, en figurant un espace precisement ancre a la limite: ni
d'un cote, ni de l'autre, non pas pour gommer la frontiere, mais pour
maintenir la tension, pour tenter d'"aspirer ce vide" (1981, 76).
L'analyse des liens et de la nature de la relation entre l'interiorite
et Pexteriorite pose necessairement la question de l'etre, car cette dia
lectique forge un 'je' tiraille, ecartele entre le dedans et le dehors. Le
sujet beckettien pourrait en consequence resider tout entier (ou tenter de
resider, puisque aucune 'residence' ne semble definitivement acquise
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Entre "mots muets" et silence bruissant 389
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390 Julia Siboni
Ouvrages cites
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Entre "mots muets" et silence bruissant 391
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