Imágenes de vértigo en Les grandes blondes de Jean Echenoz

Résumé

The following paper, which focuses on the novel by Jean Echenoz Les grandes blondes (1995), develops a three-way study already announced by the polysemy of the title. On the one hand, it analyzes the tribute that the writer pays to his broad literary and cinematographic culture through intertextual winks that, in this case, refer directly to the filmography of Alfred Hitchcock. On the other hand, it studies the philmicoliterary transactions that sustain a narrative discourse of fast paced rhythm and dizzying tempo, governed by a narrative voice as active and punctilious as it is ironic and biting. Finally, it reflects on the vertigo produced by the images of a deshumanized society under the triple mold of the adventure, crime and sentimental novel