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100 1 0 _aSimon, Anne
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245 0 0 _aDigging the earth, digging the language
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520 _aWorms, cockroaches, larvae, ants, rodents and other vermin. These living beings, apparently subject to the fierce laws of a purely instinct-based biology, have fascinated many authors. To access this “otherness” — all the more so frightful and radical precisely because of its proximity with our intimacy — we must dig the earth and dig the language. To make room for an underground people in the transcendental sphere of language is by itself an ethical act : many writers have seen models for an art based on the intensity of life in the dwellings and prodigal energy of underground creatures.
690 _aAlexievitch
690 _aMichelet
690 _aRose-Innes
690 _aLacarrière
690 _anatural history
786 0 _nCommunications | o 105 | 2 | 2019-10-25 | p. 221-234 | 0588-8018
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-communications-2019-2-page-221?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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