TY - BOOK AU - Bougerol,Maud TI - “When she awoke, a shower of raw flesh had fallen in the field.” Profusion and decay in Brian Evenson’s Any Corpse PY - 2019///. N1 - 42 N2 - The characters in Brian Evenson’s short story “Any Corpse” wander a decaying world: bits and pieces of corpses are rotting in an inhospitable landscape solely consisting of barren fields. As survivors of a disaster that is never explained, they set to no avail on a quest for knowledge ending in blinding scenes of violence and murder. The use of abundant details in the short story leads to profuse close-ups of a putrefying world, while provoking a linguistic and sensory proliferation that triggers a reaction from the reader. He/she then experiences an act of reading marked by profusion UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2019-3-page-187?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -