Les imaginaires de la mort dans le roman policier macabre, entre cadavérisation et putréfaction
This paper deals about the representations of physical death in contemporary crime stories, which are becoming macabre, because they describe what happens to the body when it becomes a corpse. It treats about thanatomorphosis which runs along two periods: cadaverisation, then putrefaction. Firstly,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Socio-anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/2150 |
| Summary: | This paper deals about the representations of physical death in contemporary crime stories, which are becoming macabre, because they describe what happens to the body when it becomes a corpse. It treats about thanatomorphosis which runs along two periods: cadaverisation, then putrefaction. Firstly, the murders are sadistic and the suffering recent corpses are a symbol of the social representation of bad death. The suffering corpse leaves its humanity for bestiality. The autopsy, even it is another profanation, appears as an essential rite to give peace to the dead person. Secondly, the novels describe with a lot of details the putrefaction of the corpse, showing how it is eaten by small animals as vermin, devoured by wild predators and also pets getting wild. Thirdly, abandoned corpses in nature or in an urban trash are a symbol of the contemporary fear of anonymous death and also the fear of death without sepulture. The both show how death is thought as a total annihilation of the social and human being. |
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| ISSN: | 1276-8707 1773-018X |