Le Le rapport de Brodeck: sur les traces du récit lacunaire à la manière de Jean Giono

Abstract

This article intends to show how Phi­lippe Claudel, like Jean Giono in A King Without Distraction, is a master of the elliptical narrative in Brodeck’s Report. Brodeck, caught between a painful past and a worrying present, will take the reader through two versions of his report, one official and other clandestine, two writings by which he seeks to understand, link and reconstruct the facts, report whose content will never be uncovered to the reader. In our study we will follow the trail of those gaps in the narrative, so typical in Jean Giono, but also featured in the structure of modern novel with the enigmatic and initiatic construction of Brodeck’s Report by Philippe Claudel.