Entretien

L’accompagnement in absentia par la création littéraire

Benjamin Gagnon ChaineyPhilippe Yong

To accompany, etymologically, refers to this action of “taking (someone) as a companion”. A transitive verb, to accompany therefore implies a direct object which, in the most accepted sense, refers to a human presence. However, for the writer in the process of writing, is it possible to think and experience, both psychologically and physically, a form of support in absentia which, on the one hand, would not involve other human presence, and on the other hand, whose direct object would be the very person of the writer? This...