Writing Under Fatigue. Revolutionary Futures of a Poetry of Exhaustion by Isabelle Dumais
In 2019, Isabelle Dumais published Les Grandes Fatigues, in which she describes the difficult journey caused by exhaustion and the tired subject’s incursion into slowness. This collection of poems reveals the formation of new possibilities, frail but tenacious, that hold the potential to transform the world, to make it more welcoming. This analysis looks at the processes that lead to these « infra political » reversals, as Romain Huët calls them, in the text and in the act of writing itself. How indeed does rest, even when forced, offer the opportunity to transform a posture of subjugation into a movement of personal and artistic affirmation ?