L'oeuvre litt raire peut ȇtre appr hend e comme un espace o agissent simultan ment deux forces oppos es. D'une part, il s'agit des forces de d composition qui travaillent sa structure, augmentant l'entropie du syst me textuel; de l'autre, il y a des forces de r quilibrage qui tendent relier, f d rer les parties disjointes afin de r ussir une (im)possible unit . Les travaux d velopp s dans ce livre tudient diff rents aspects du fonctionnement formel et s mantique du fragment dans la litt rature fran aise et francophone. Ils d montrent que la d composition de la forme ne vise pas la destruction de l'oeuvre, mais permet de faire ressortir son potentiel de recr ation.
A literary work can be considered as a place under the influence of opposing forces. On the one hand, there are deconstructing forces which, by affecting the structure, interfere with its continuity; on the other hand, there are counteracting forces that seek to connect separated parts to create a new unity. The contributions in this book examine the formal and semantic functioning of a fragment in French and Francophone literature. They prove that the decomposition of form does not cause the destruction of the work, but releases all its creative potential.