The Poetics of Montage as a Peculiar Feel-Think. Murmurings of Critical Lyricism in Muriel Pic’s En regardant le sang des bêtes (2017)
This article focuses on En regardant le sang des bêtes, a short essay published by Muriel Pic in 2017 drawn, as the title overtly signals, from the viewing of Georges Franju’s short film Le Sang des bêtes. Deeply immersed in the question of dying, this essay displays a form of lyrical writing that relies in large part on the montage device that is central to it. We can see how it is constructed according to a logic of disruption. Moreover, the way in which the writer-researcher activates a thread of semantic memory from a previous cultural production is highlighted, by constantly playing with various shifts and displacements. It is also underlined and analyzed how this hybrid and delinear work, entirely articulated around the question of the unregardable, allows not only to take back the unbearable but also to put in motion the framework that it invests through a multidimensional investigation that comes to stimulate a peculiar feel-thought.