Maylis de Kerangal: l'écriture et le réel

From Corniche Kennedy, the literary horizon of Maylis de Kerangal has been enlarged by giving us the opportunity to read the intimate and collective adventure of a true human epic with a writing in direct contact with the real. But what are the relations between reality and fiction in the work of M. de Kerangal? Seeking to identify the subjective impasses of present-day society, while extracting new forms of self-construction from the other, his writing seems to unite in a single movement reality and fiction to tell the world. The real that emerges from the texts of M. de Kerangal is a real "created", "worked", the real of fiction, in the context of a writing at the same time precise (by the exploration of all the proper lexical fields To each subject) and fast, spreading over the page and crossing the present with a lucid look at the complexity of human relationships. Seized in the energy of the movement, the emotions felt by the characters turn out to be tensions which, from pleasure to suffering, are often experienced in the flesh, and eventually surpass it, confronting itself with matter and seeking to Transform or capture the energy it releases. Nurtured by meticulous information about the real, his sentences describe a flow, both corporeal and mental, by means of a multiple, palpitating and just writing that evolves in the course of his novels, notably from Corniche Kennedy to Réparer les vivants, through Naissance d’un pont. Thus, in the context of the current novel, which has become « protéiforme, polymorphe, transformiste, omnivore », as the writer noted in his intervention in the collective Devenirs du roman (Inculte, 2007), while diving into the heart of the human condition, M. de Kerangal's writing becomes the place of observation and discussion around the act of writing, as well as a tool for reflection on some features of contemporary prose.