L’empathie a-t-elle un style ? Le cas de D’autres vies que la mienne d’Emmanuel Carrère
Synopsis
Through the example of the non-fiction novel D’autres vies que la mienne by Emmanuel Carrère (2009), representing a branch of contemporary French literature that places empathy at the heart of the narrative, this chapter seeks to identify the linguistic and discursive means underlying the thematization of the empathetic feeling. Language register, figures of speech, sentence modalities and modalizations, enunciative strategies and changes of points of view are the main markers of this stylistic approach to empathy.
Keywords: Emmanuel Carrère, contemporary literature, stylistics, figures of speech, enunciation, point of view