Body and Soul
L'imaginaire du « corps-institution » dans la prose romanesque de Michel Houellebecq
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to show, based on the romantic writing of Michel Houellebecq, that the human body has acquired new properties which make it an enterprise in its own right, and therefore an institution — because, through the enterprise of his body, the individual governs himself to exist in the economic world and influences the economic system through activities that are more or less profitable. Drawing on the sociopoetics of G. Molinié and A. Viala (1993), which establishes the relationship between esthetics and ideology, this study analyses the configuration of the body of writing and its textual representatives, showing that the body-institution is the expression of a new state of capitalism of vulnerabilities.
Keywords —
imaginary · body-institution · the enterprise · capitalism · vulnerabilitiesCite this article
Atangana Ngono, D. A. (2024). L'imaginaire du « corps-institution » dans la prose romanesque de Michel Houellebecq. Dialogos, 41, 197–208. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/13
Atangana Ngono, Denis Adrien. “L'imaginaire du « corps-institution » dans la prose romanesque de Michel Houellebecq.” Dialogos, vol. 41, 2024, pp. 197–208, https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/13.
Atangana Ngono, Denis Adrien. 2024. “L'imaginaire du « corps-institution » dans la prose romanesque de Michel Houellebecq.” Dialogos 41: 197–208. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/13.
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