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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28314

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Cosmogony of possible options: renegotiation of fictional truth and quantum reading in Antoine Volodine’s ‘Minor anges’ and ‘Dondog’

Abstract

Post-exotism offers a destabilising reading experience. The self-referential fictional universe created by Antoine Volodine keeps the boundaries between people, but also between real and dream, truth and invention, in an undefined way. This world, which already disrupts readers’ expectations, is in some cases conveyed by problematic narratives which make it all the more difficult to grasp it. This is the case in the two novels under study, Minor Orange (1999) and Dondog (2002). The combination of formal elements blurring the reader’s markers and leading him to renegotiate his adherence to the narrative creates a particular device at the heart of this memory. This changes the way the reader can grasp the fictional truth: its usual pillars, narrative authority and fictional coherence, are marked by uncertainty and thus create, rather than a single truth, a multitude of possibilities. The ratio to actual quantum physics provides interesting insights into the findings of this multiple fictional truth. Both recognise the coexistence of competing states, place the observer as the home of the real world and modulate the possibilities according to a probability ratio. This parallel provides a way of identifying the direct effects of the formal system and of observing the mechanisms that are being put in place in the reading of an evancent world.

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