Sportouch, Sabine

Blood, fury and screaming - 2022.


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A character suffering from cancer dictates his life story to a nurse. The story, carrying many traumas, is organised and disorganised, with the narrator’s description of the pain and suffering that eat away at him and from which he derives great pleasure. Emphasis is placed on the anti-traumatic function of narrativity, the reorganising role of illness and the place of destructiveness in the writing process and the resulting narcissistic reappropriation.